Because with federated services people don’t have to host an activitypub server, you can join a federated instance that someone else maintains.

The typical Twitter user balked at just selecting a mastodon instance when they signed up in the app… similar issues for reddit users looking to come to lemmy. If you think that they’re going to be willing to go and set up and manage their own server, even on a free hosting site, you’re wildly mistaken.

If you don’t think you need the normies on your social network anyways, I have no polite way to tell you that most people want to join social networks with their friends.

Maybe? But I wouldn’t hold my breath.

I mean, it’s the best option you have, but that doesn’t make it a good option.

It’s ephemeral because now you’re demanding that everyone stand up their own web-addressable servers that the rss readers can search, if they want their own content to be searchable. Which isn’t going to happen. So in practice, it’s going to be either federated, or ephemeral.

Why do we advocate for, and pour hours of development into, ActivityPub rather than

Because that’s what the devs are interested in doing. If you’re going to ask anyone, ask them.

a big thing you’re missing is discovery of old content and searching. You’re describing a purely ephemeral social network. Activitypub itself can’t solve that, but this is why federated networks exist instead of purely P2P.
Maybe some people want that, after all Snapchat became popular. But it wouldn’t work for something like Lemmy.

This will be fantastic during the apocalypse and we lose Internet.
Too bad I’ll have lost the Internet so I won’t be able to learn how to get the equipment and set it up, until it’s too late

I think you’re going to have a problem keeping your power supply floating in the air like that

Look here, pedantry is my business.

I didn’t mean literally mad. I mean people are telling me something that I’m wrong for something that I didn’t say, and that I went out of my way to make clear I wasn’t saying, and they’re doing it in a belittling way. So yes, my feelings are hurt.

But meanwhile I still didn’t say it, and I made clear I wasn’t saying it, and you’re still being belittling and telling me that’s what I said.

Maybe the problem isn’t that I’m wrong about what a fruit is, and the problem is that you (and whoever else) misread what I wrote. In which case, why are you still telling me I’m wrong about what a fruit is? And if that’s not what you’re doing, then what are you doing?

I didn’t make my argument clear, for sure.
The initial person called the dry fruit a seed.
Then the other person countered with an example of a fruit with a single seed where you don’t call the whole fruit the seed. But importantly they didn’t establish why the first person should consider those two things the same. The first person simply didn’t accept that the dry fruit was a fruit in the first place, so using another, typical, fruit for example isn’t going to help.

My example was trying (ineffectively) to show that it appears as an apples/orange comparison unless you already understand.

But now, despite explicitly saying I know that a strawberry isn’t a berry in my original reply, I’m being told that I’m disagreeing with science, rather than with their example.

You’re having a different discussion than what I’m trying to make.

Im aware of the difference between botanical and culinary definition. Im aware a strawberry isn’t botanically a berry. Im aware a pumpkin is a berry. I’m aware that raspberries are accessory fruits, that peanuts aren’t nuts, etc.

I’m saying that your peach example isn’t going to illustrate that difference to someone who doesn’t already get it.

I can admit my feelings get hurt when someone gets mad at me for something I didn’t say.

Can you admit your failure in reading comprehension?
Can you at least point out where you think I said that strawberry “seeds” aren’t the actual fruit, so that I can know how I was unclear about it?

Apologizing doesn’t affect their guilt or lack thereof.

Canadians are allowed self defense within reason

That’d be a really great point, if that was even anywhere close to what I said in the comment that got down voted.

So what am I to take from this reply? That people on Lemmy are functionally illiterate? That they can’t distinguish between criticism of an example with criticism of an argument?

Ah I see. That makes a bit more sense.

But I still don’t think that’s a great company the example, because I believe what they were actually saying was that just because it contains a see doesn’t make it a fruit, in the same way that if you see a shelled peanut with the husk on, you wouldn’t call it a whole fruit.

I know they’re wrong, but I don’t think that your counter example addressed what their confusion was.

Not admitting guilt doesn’t make you not guilty

An apple contains many seeds, but you don’t call each seed a fruit.

I mean, I knew a strawberry wasn’t a berry, but your counterexample was completely irrelevant.

Edit:
When people downvote but nobody responds, I have no idea what people are downvoting about.
Nothing I said was inaccurate, and it illustrated why their example was inapplicable, so what do downvotes mean here?

Considering that Linus himself only makes binaries for windows and mac, and doesn’t bother packaging for Linux because it’s so painful, I’m not surprised that the immich folks didn’t make one.

Ah, ok then, never mind my answer. I greatly misjudged what you were really looking for

What are you using for your main backup? It probably has a feature for doing remote backup / duplication. You’re best off using that.

If you don’t, then I think that’s probably your first order of business. There are a bunch of good COTS NAS devices that support remote backup to a similar device or to the cloud. Synology generally seems to be the easiest to use based on reviews, but recently they’ve been getting picky about hard drive support.

If you’d rather DIY then there are some FOSS software options to let you build your own NAS and then back it up to the cloud or to a remote device running the same software. These can get pretty complicated from what I can tell (I’m in the process of doing something similar, been researching). Options include OpenMediaVault, and TrueNAS. TrueNAS seems to be “better” but more complicated and easy to fuck up.

Unraid is also very popular, but it costs money to get a software license. Users swear by it, though.
And on the outside HexOS - a fork (or maybe alternative front end?) of TrueNAS, by some former Unraid devs, with the goal of making TrueNAS as easy to use as Unraid. But it’s both paid and beta, so probably not a good choice yet.

These will all allow remote backup to cloud or to a remote device running the same software. They also typically support some kind of virtualization with an app store, so you can use your NAS to host other servers like a media server or immich or home assistant, etc (although app ecosystem abundance will vary).

Wrt hardware, you’ll have to look up system requirements for the software you want to use. For example, TrueNAS uses ZFS filesystem, which wants a lot of ram if you need it to perform well.
If your r-pi can run the software you want, then you can get a SATA hat for your pi, to run a couple hard drives. You can also get NAS cases for your pi.
I probably wouldn’t recommend leaving a mess of cables and parts at your friend’s house across the country, it’s better for both of you if the system is fairly well contained - enough for them to move it without risk of parts getting disconnected.

Thanks!
That helps when I eventually get around to standing up my own AI server.

Right now I can’t really justify the cost for my low volume of use, when I can get CloudFlare free tier access to mid-sized models. But it’s something want to bring into my homelab instead for better control and privacy.

It depends on your motivations and security requirements.

If you’re already hosting Home Assistant, there is an add-on for CloudFlared which will take care of most of everything for you, using CloudFlare secure tunnels.
It even does simple subdomain reverse proxy, to serve your other services.

It requires that you use CloudFlare for your DNS entries, and it won’t secure your host for you (they do offer some free services to help a little), and you still end up depending on a cloud service provider so it’s not pure self hosting.
But it’s free, you’re still mostly in control, and it’s less likely to catastrophically mess up your netsec if you’re a beginner.