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Powerful part:

Even if he doesn’t call it anxiety, he admits he sometimes has trouble focusing, and there’s a tenseness in his body that can be hard to shake off. But he’s usually able to turn it around by talking to his friends or elders, or by reciting his favorite proverb:

"They tried to bury us, but they didn’t know we were seeds."

“It’s not about what I need, it’s about what my community needs,” he said. “There is joy in caring for one another. There is joy in coming together to fight for a future that we believe in.”

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Can you do that with a letter once it is send? And the instance admin of the mirroring server can delete posts if that is legally required for some reason.

And how would that even work technically? Bulk import posts and spam other instances with mass updates? That would immediately detected as a spam-wave and blocked. And back dating technically new messages is also not exactly a great thing to allow.

Other implementations of nomadic identity like Hubzilla get around this by letting you run two accounts in parallel and syncing them from your main account, but they will also not back-port old messages before you linked up the secondary account.

Basically anyone with some experience with federated systems agrees that importing old messages in bulk on account migration will never happen, and I don't really see an issue with that, since messages are not lost.

I don't think that's even desirable and also legally questionable. But anyways, these posts are not gone with an instance shutting down and thus I don't really see a problem. You can always add a link to a mirrow of those old posts in your profile.

Und dann… mittendrin, “Doch was die Ampel tut, ist das schlimmste, was sie tun kann”. Völlig ohne Zusammenhang zu irgendetwas davor oder danach in der Diskussion.

Das stimmt so nicht. Der Artikel stellt das sehr wohl in den Zusammenhang das kurzfristiges sich durchwursteln das schlimmste ist was man machen kann wenn man Populisten etwas entgegensetzen will. Und ich denke diese Kritik an der Ampel ist nicht unberechtigt.

Content is mirrored on all federated instances and it is very rare for an instance to shut down without notice.

It's super easy to migrate accounts on Mastodon. Even works fine to move an account from Mastodon to Akkoma for example.

I ended up with a second hand APC 1500. Contrary to some other models you can just monitor it with a standard USB cable, just the power cables with these inverted plugs are a bit hard to get these days.

Mbin is a fork that was startend to add some stuff the original Kbin dev didn't like. These days it seems Kbin is dead though, so basically Mbin is the new Kbin.

I thought about it, but apparently it needs higher water temperatures than what my solar-termal water heater and air-to-water heatpump usually produces, so I scrapped the idea again.

Cheaped out on UPS, now I have three basic small ones I have no use for (they work except the battery isn't good anymore). Would have been better spend a bit more right from the start.

Looks like the hardware replacement went mostly as expected, just the additional cooler for the still working SSD in the raid pool didn't fit due to some mainboard plastic part in the way, so it will have to continue with somewhat elevated temperatures. But I removed an old network adapter that was producing a lot of heat and improved the overall airflow in the case, so it should be ok. The new NVMe ssd came with a small cooler and so far the temperature looks much better.

Lemmy.world used to cost that much, but I think they downscaled a bit recently, or are at least planning to as the current growth of the userbase has slowed down.

I was actually surprised by that 150 figure when I first read it, as it is much cheaper than what the BlueSky documentation makes it sound.

It is certainly possible to collect that much in monthly donations, but then again... how do you build a loyal base of supporters for running a mostly hidden piece of infrastructure? People always complain about the instance focussed nature of the fediverse, but the ability to build communities around them and get people actually emotionally invested in their home instance is IMHO rather a strength of it. That is also why I am slightly sceptic of easy account migration tools, as it devalues the instance as yourhome base to a certain extend.