Three ad blockers? One of them is fake and serving you ads. Or is allowing ads through because they are getting kickbacks. Or one of your other add-ons is serving that crap. Purge all that shit and start over.

Who the hell sees ads? If you choose to let your browser run them, well, what do you want?

Eh, then if your online ID is compromised you’re in trouble. Can’t just burn it and start over.

I have one 12 TB and two 14 internal hard drives. I also have 6 external drives (two 12 TB, four 14 TB) for 2x redundant backups. All my new stuff and dynamic documents are stored on the 12 TB drive (so that I only have to update the backups for that drive frequently). When it gets fullish I migrate content over to the storage drives and update those backups. I’ve been doing this maybe twice a year.

I also have my dynamic files, photos, docs etc, set to auto backup twice daily to a remote backup.

I only delete content to replace with higher quality.

I haven’t bothered with any sort of raid in nearly two decades. You need proper backups regardless so what’s the point? If I have to run half my Plex library off a USB backup drive for a week while a new drive runs badsector and syncs up… who cares? Merging the drives as a JBOB is nifty and all, but adds complexity across the board without meaningful gain.

It’s back!

I’d love to hear how the decaf is.

If they don’t call it Green Lizard Enterprise Linux I’ll be disappointed.

You want a disgusting AI generated content mess? Because that’s how you get a disgusting AI generated content mess.

sucked big time,but not because it was planned.

No no, it’s definitely coincidence that all other planned national economics have sucked too.

Stop trying to make communism happen. It’s not going to happen.

You say that like demolition and building a new structure aren’t fucking expensive. Old buildings are reused for new things all the time.

Are they really Nazis? Are they denying the Holocaust? Calling for genocide? I see a lot of run of the mill right-wing conspiracy crap. If they aren’t causing problems here there’s little justification for banning them wholesale.

Nay

Go banana.

I’m not entirely opposed. But gaining membership in this trusted subset of users should be a fairly open process somehow. Like, have a community where people can post an intro about themselves, have conversations about themselves with others, and, if most superusers who bother to vote deem them human enough, they are inducted into the club.

Ah, I stand corrected. I did not realize users from defederated instances could still subscribe and view content new content. I thought updates ended at the time of defederation.

Only a minority would go through the trouble of creating a second account just to troll

I have a lot of accounts. I have an account here, I have a Reddit account, one at Facebook, Twitter, etc. I have a password manager filled with more accounts than I could name if I had to. If this space balkanizes then I’ll have accounts covering most of the space. The assholes will too.

In some ways not defederating might be smarter from a troll management perspective. Banning an account (from another instance) from posting here while leaving them able see content would likely result in fewer trolls just making accounts here than if they had to make an account to just see the content. Just shadowban the nazis and the tankies and the other bastards rather than making a big concern out of the existence of the other instances.

It would be good if we could ban content from other instances from showing up in “All” without full defederation though. And that’s not even entirely about bad actors. I don’t want to defederate from lemmynsfw but I also don’t want it in my All.

I expect most of us are here for the chill vibe. That should be reflected in the outcomes at the agora. Assuming it’s local only.