I used to store a bunch of hard drives with ZFS snapshots of my stuff in the garage. Not ideal, but better than nothing, and it’s technically a separate building lol
I only have roughly 5TB of data though.
Definitely looking to improve the situation, cause at the moment I have no offsite backups at all :/
Judging by user count alone is deceiving, in my opinion. We need to look at how many “big Twitter personas / companies” are moving to Mastodon, because they are the ones generating content and increasing traction.
As it is right now, I only see some people creating Mastodon accounts and posting 1:1 with what they still post on Twitter. This is not enough.
But at the same time, all migrations take time and we will only be able to determine a “winner” after months if not years of this process taking place.
I’m crossing my fingers and hoping for the best still.
We are one centralised and pretty Reddit alternative away from people flocking to it.
As swanky as it sounds, I doubt fediverse with all its quirks, bugs, instability, confusion etc. will be able to sustain or even gain mass adoption.
I want this to be false, but we have Mastodon as an example and it ain’t getting the traction it needs to replace or even properly compete with Twitter. Especially not once BlueSky opens up, assuming it will happen.
Depends on what you want to self-host. In general, I would advise against self-hosting anything before you familiarise yourself with the basics of *nix, networking and cyber security.
You at least need to know enough to make sure that whatever you host is only available within your local network and is inaccessible from the outside.
Once that’s ensured, go nuts, experiment, learn, evolve.
In terms of how to start, really depends on your budget, what hardware you can spare, how much space you have at your place etc.
For the most basic playground it’s enough to have a raspberry pi or similar, or a very old laptop / desktop computer.
For something more swanky you can get old Dell servers (e.g. R420) online for around 100$ or so. They are quite power hungry though. Or you can get yourself a NUC and use that.
If all of this sounds like too much work, just get yourself QNAP / Synology NAS and see what it can do for you (it is way more limited in terms of options, but easier to setup and you can still have your Plex / file sharing / docker containers).
Depends on what kind of data, if it’s mostly internal documents / dumps of whatever communication systems they use etc, it would not be too large (mostly because of retention policies on that software).
If it is actually the data straight from Reddit’s production databases, then 80GB does sound questionable. But then what kind of data are we talking about? Is it actually valuable?
Yeah that’s the first thing I’ve tried. No dice. I think iOS may be caching app data even if the app is deleted, so if it’s some kind of state corruption it might not help anyway.
To be honest it is to be expected, people will flock to the most active (and consequentially better maintained, at least subjectively) instances.
This might only change once these big instance become saturated and close signups, though even still I expect to see only a handful of Lemmy / KBin instances staying relevant once the dust is settled, especially with the recent precedents like Beehaw defederating from “too open” instances.
I mean, I still use them, mostly because I do not see a strong enough reason to transfer my domains, given how much of a pita that would be.
I’ve heard good things about Gandi, but it’s not my first hand experience so wouldn’t vouch for that. GoDaddy looks fancy but I remember from a while ago they were really into upselling on bloody everything, which is annoying.
So at the end of a day, NameCheap kinda works fine :)
I use https://reeder.app/ with https://feedly.com account. Checks all the boxes between being able to access my RSS feed on any device (as Feedly has a website) and have it great user experience on my phone / laptop.
I used to store a bunch of hard drives with ZFS snapshots of my stuff in the garage. Not ideal, but better than nothing, and it’s technically a separate building lol
I only have roughly 5TB of data though.
Definitely looking to improve the situation, cause at the moment I have no offsite backups at all :/