So they are just a loud minority?

Most of the time the VPS provider offers some backup solution. It’s not only about your configuration files which can easily be recreated, but about all the user data like pictures databases, etc. Which once lost can’t be recovered.

Best practice is a 3-2-1 backup: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/the-3-2-1-backup-strategy/

But you could back up your stuff on your laptop if you want, it’s not such a bad idea actually. For that you trigger the backup script from your laptop, you can do it automatically there too. This makes sure that the laptop is on while you’re doing the backup.

The easiest way is a crown job and a bash file which runs a couple of rsync commands to get specific files and directories from the server via ssh.

A more involved way would be a backup system like restic, which does a lot of things for you but is a bit more involved to set up.

I’m hosting my own server and my own bridges. Some of the bridges are rock solid and I never need to do anything other than keeping them updated like the discord, the signal, the Telegram and Slack ones.

Others I installed but they are breaking now and then and I have to fiddle with them like FB messanger, WhatsApp.

The third category is the ones that theoretically should work but I can’t get them to work like WeChat or Kakao Chat, because they are in a bad shape, outdated or like in WeChats case my account is flagged to not be able to do that for some reason.

And then there are the chats which have no way to be integrated like Instagram I think.

From what I understand beeper is just a matrix server with all those bridges installed and they configure update and run them making shire that everything works. And to be honest, that is a lot of work and it’s a good value proposition.

But yes you’re right they need to decrypt your chats on their server so that the bridge can deliver the messages. Actually I made a video explaining it a while ago about Element One which is doing it in the same way: https://tube.jeena.net/w/rYhp4ZT5Ykw1aBGqMr62KG

It’s good, but I really wonder where all those people were during the last election.

More people migrant into North Korea than out. Not very surprising, it’s quite difficult to get out, but to get in you can just be kidnapped.

Keep it just in your head until Elon Musk forces Neural link on everyone, then you’re fucked.

I have nothing against pull advertising so that if I need something I go somewhere and pull some advertisement to get information about a product I need or want. Window shopping, going to church seem like that.

But shoving ads down my throat, no thanks.

Yeah, we don’t have versioning yet because there are so few instances and it’s a rolling release so to say. So most people update just every now and then. Most of the admins are in a matrix chanel together also.

I’ve been running my one person instance for 8 month or something ;)

Very good.

I think it’s good that PieFed is so small, that means they can move faster and innovate more without fearing that things will break for thousands of people. I think it’s good that a project like PieFed can try things and see what works and sticks and this is then a good indicator for projects like Lemmy to copy what is good and leave out what is not good.

This post is not about Mbin, only about Piefed (not Piefied).

Don’t try to tell people what they can or can not talk about in this thread while disregarding it yourself.

That is exactly the main reason I created my own theme, but yeah there should be a official compact theme, especially for the mobile phone.

People are talking about Piefed not Pixelfed

I for one see this as a very positive development. This is the way to make money without selling out your users but by making them your customers. Honestly I really didn’t want to use gmail as a mail provider, but I wanted to use my own domain for emails so I had to do complicated setups with MXRoute which normal people can’t do. I still have to pay MXRoute and because I’m using Thunderbird as my mail client both on desktop and phone, I might as well switch to Thundermail.

Compared to what is happening with Firefox, I think Thunderbird has been on the right track for many years now. And I’m not alone with this assessment, you can see it on the donations basically doubling every year.

Even their AI experiments they communicate that it will be running locally very cautiously, I’m telling you guys, this is the way. Not by alienating potential customers with a shift towards advertisers but instead offering them a solution to a problem they have (mail hosting) and which is really close to the core business and a natural fit.

Same with Thunderbird Send and Thunderbird Appointment, those are things around email which now are kind of hard to do for people and other clients have it build in like Outlook with Sharepoint and the build in scheduling assistant. With Thunderbird you need to know about something like Doodle and do it on the side manually.

In Swedish we write it like that.https://sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litium , it’s an easy mistake to make to forget the scilient h in English, isn’t it?

To be honest even I have a hard time:

1. Heart shaped box
2. Litium
3. hm … … ah Smells like Teen Spirit!

As far as I know yes, I watched some videos where people were talking about the newest MW version and they showed that map, that’s how I remembered :D

The very fast map in Call of Duty.

Nice!