shrugal

I'm very happy with Synology C2. They have special integrations for their NAS devices ofc, but they also offer general purpose backup storage.

I think it's perfectly fine to upload larger files somewhere else and share just the link. They don't try to be your go-to file hoster.

Do you think that the content is only valuable if you can interact with it?

I specifically didn't say that. Interaction is the obvious part in a human vs bot debate, but to me it also makes a difference if a human decided to post something somewhere, or if a bot is copying it without the human's consent. And I said that that's the reason why I come to Lemmy, if I'd just wanted content I'd use an automated news aggregator instead.

Should we just forget about books because it doesn’t have a comment section?

We are talking about social media here, nothing in what I said applies to or takes away from books.

That can only possibly be true [...]

Just pointing out that you're trying to argue away my personal experience. I specifically didn't say that this is a general rule, I said it's how I experience it. But judging by other posts and the feedback to my post I'm not alone with this.

This is the same type of gatekeeping [...]

This is by definition not gatekeeping, because I'm not trying to keep anybody out. People can come here for whatever reason as far as I'm concerned. What we are talking about here is changing things to try to attract people, because that is what you're doing. Big difference.

I haven’t been able to implement the solution as fast I’d like [...]

That's why I suggested to you a few weeks ago that you keep it small until you ironed out the kinks, idk if you remember. Experiments like yours are completely fine imo, as long as you make sure they don't negatively affect the wider Lemmy community. But what you've been doing could be described as a full-scale bot attack on the Fediverse, and an excuse like that just doesn't cut it in that case.

But if you know that the post is from a bot who potentially will become a real user (by migrating through the fediverser portal) and that one of the reasons to make it more compelling to them is by having content here that is not available elsewhere, why not write anyway?

Because my reason for being here - as I said in the beginning - is not to help you with your project! I come here to interact with real humans right now. What you are doing is deputize other Lemmy users for your plan, even if that means making their experience here worse. They didn't sign up for this, apparently many even disagree with it like I do, but you just don't seem to care or at least accept it as a necessary sacrifice on their part!

It helps if you stop thinking about them as “bots” [...]

I'm sorry, but you can't shit in my mouth and tell me "It helps if you stop thinking about it as shit, instead think of it as chocolate cake". Idk what fantasy world you managed to argue yourself into, but they are bots right now! As I said, it doesn't matter that they are impersonating real humans, if anything it makes it even worse. And I don't share your blind optimism for this project of yours, so that doesn't change things either.

[...] alien.top has reached top 5 in status count in less than two months.

Because you are faking statistics with bots! Please get this in your head for gods sake! I can create an instance with 100000000 fake users and posts with the push of a button, that doesn't create any real user engagement or value.

If alien.top ever becomes minimally popular, it will be the people on LW that will be in the minority and they will be the ones missing out on content, not the other way around.

What kind of f*cked up plan is that? You're fine with becoming as popular as LW and splitting the majority Lemmy community in two? Do you actually read what you write? And if this keeps going I don't think LW will be the only instance.

I’ve already disabled the bots.

Good!

but if alien.top gets burned because of some stigma associated with them, I can create another fediverser instance

Idk how many people already signed up on this instance, but I take it they are just thrown under the bus in that case?!

I hope that it doesn’t get to that point, but if I have to sacrifice alien.top in order to keep the idea of fediverser and the topic-based instances intact, I will.

You mean just the reddit-lemmy community matching? That actually sounds like a useful service, I don't think anybody has a problem with that.

My opinion on it is pretty simple:

• I'm here to read posts by and talk to humans, and a post made by a human somewhere else and copied over by a bot without said human's knowledge or consent is not "made by a human" anymore as far as I'm concerned.
• I don't f*cking care about the size of the Fediverse above a certain threshold, and we have reached that imo. There are great posts and discussions here already, so it's fine if it attracts more people and it's fine if it doesn't. The important bit imo is that the people who join do so because they understand and care about the platform's goals and ethos, not just because it has the biggest potential audience.
• Communities mainly populated by bots feel like grotesque ghost towns. Answering a post and later realizing it was made by a bot makes you feel tricked and deceived. Your posts being copied to another social network by a bot impersonating you feels cheap and desperate, and like your rights are being seriously violated (which is probably the case)! This all could very well give Lemmy the bad rep of being the "fake bot social network".
• On the big plan behind it, who the hell would want to or should take over a Lemmy account from an instance that's widely known to be populated by bots, maybe even blocked or defederated for that reason?! That's pretty much the worst entrance to the Fediverse you could have, almost guaranteeing a bad experience from the get go!

So by all means advertise Lemmy outside of the Fediverse, but don't fill it with bot content just to make it look like one of the big social networks on first glance. Imo it will do much more harm than good, because you alienate the people already here and you give it a bad rep in the outside world.

That's why it feels so cozy here.

It's mostly about syncing data between your different devices, without having to use a cloud service. I want to be able to organize the budget on my PC and look it up on my phone for example, without having to keep my PC running or manually sync them.

Another aspect is backups and redundancy. My NAS has all my data, and it does an encrypted cloud backup every night. I don't have to remember that or make sure it gets the latest changes, because it's always running and always up to date.

It's also just a fun little hobby to tinker with it and figure things out.

The answer is probably yes, if you download movies or shows somewhat regularly.

Together with Overseerr they can reduce the process of finding, downloading and organizing releases to just one click in a Netflix-like interface.They can also keep looking for better versions of your existing stuff and upgrade it automatically in the background. And there is Bazarr to automatically fetch missing subtitles.

I had also heard of them but waited a long time to finally check them out, and I wish I'd done the switch much sooner! It takes a bit to configure everything to your liking, but it saves soooo much time now and does things I would never have bothered to do by hand, like upgrading pretty much my entire library.

That's how I use it right now for my personal library, just browsing Overseer from time to time and marking movies and shows I want to watch at some point. There are predefined lists for popular or upcoming releases, and it also has a very powerful filter system. I think you do have to have the appropriate *arr app installed to be able to mark and request things, but not 100% sure on that.

The key is to do regular backups to a different location, and to keep previous versions as read-only backups for a certain timespan. If something happens to the local data you can just restore from the remote backup, and also pick an unmodified previous version in case of a ransomware attack.

E.g. I do a daily encrypted cloud backup of everything that can't just be downloaded again, and the backup provider keeps previous versions for 30 days.

Linux is a name, not a description of the parts. It can mean just the kernel, or the entire family of operating systems, depending on the context.

It's what we settled on, and there is no point in debating the name unless there is a real problem with it.

Both honesty. AI can reduce accountability and increase the power small groups of people have over everyone else, but it can also go haywire.

We could at least make it a war crime.