It works in both directions. I’ve been shadowbanned from mastodon.social because one user misinterpreted my comment about something political (related to Germany), reported me and apparently their (German) mod was either lazy or followed the same misinterpretation and shadowbanned me - for life.
And there’s no way to object this as their support only answers to members. Which I am not.
But did they use oxygen-free copper (OFC) wire? Because otherwise the results are skewed as regular copper sounds just as bad as a banana stuck in wet mud.
Interesting! Thank you for that insight. I might adopt some methods for when I finally replace the Synology with a new NAS (which will definitely not be another Synology device!).
How often do you change your storage setup? I've configured everything once like 5 years ago and haven't touched it since. I can add larger disks in pairs and the Synology does some LVM-/mdraid-magic to add the newly available free space as RAID1 until I add a third larger disk and it remodels it to RAID5.
How do you handle parity with MergerFS? Or are all your storage partitions mirrored?
Hard drive storage is pretty cheap.
Not really - especially, if you're looking for CMR drives. And any storage increase needs at least 2 disks with basically no (ethical) way to get any money back for the old ones.
Posts can also get synced if someone from gram.social searched for a direct link to a post. E.g. if you go to gram.social and search for https://pixelfed.social/p/pixuser/1234, it'll get synced in the background and show up if you follow @pixuser later on. (Depending on how long the instance caches it.)
Likes and Reshares of external posts are local to their instance. Those won't get sent to other instances. E.g. on my private GotoSocial I don't see the correct amount of likes or reshares of posts from other instances. I'll have to visit the posts on their original instance for that. (But then, I rarely care.)
That shouldn't be an issue with any NAS bought in the past decade.
the rebuild stresses the drives
You can tweak the parameters so the rebuild is being done slower. Also, mirroring a disk stresses the (remaining) disk as well. (But to be fair, if that one fails, you'll still be able to access the data from the other mirror-pair(s).)
It all results in management overhead
I'm not seeing that. Tweaking parameters is not necessary unless you want to change the default behaviour. Default behaviour is fine in most cases.
In comparison [...] RAID is a headache.
Speak for yourself. I rather enjoy the added storage capacity.
Fediverse works like newsletters via email. If you search for an account on a different server, only the last few items are (sometimes) pulled and shown on your local instance. Only after subscribing/following that other account, you'll get new(!) updates sent to your local server. For older messages, you'll have to visit the other account's server.
Maybe those 2 photos you see were shared with gram.social earlier.
How is rebuilding an xx TB mirrored disk faster than rebuilding an xx TB disk that's part of a RAID? Since most modern NASes use software RAID, it's only a matter of tweaking a few parameters to speed up the rebuild process.
i believe it would be trivial to look through, if you can obtain them in the first place.
That’s the key point. Most paid plugins you can download only after paying. And if you get your hands on a copy, that doesn’t mean you’ll get updates, too. And running old plugins can considerably harm the security of your installation.
But if you can get your hands on a fully functional demo, you usually can remove limits.
Okay, according to this somewhat recent paper, chapter VI, C., static "obstructions" (e.g. buildings) can be put into a model and «precise position estimates» can be calculated «even in obstructed line-of-sight scenarios». Emphasis on "estimates". But it's only talking about one obstruction, not multiple in a complex arrangement. But, of course, the more BTSes receive you, the better the prediction.
64 containers in total, 60 running - the remaining 4 are Watchtowers that I run manually whenever I feel like it (and have time to fix things if something should break).
But if they're doing it half-assed as most services (send photo of passport, take a selfie), it won't be a challenge for AI to generate random IDs and a matching avatar for photo/video verification. The only way this could work is if they'd verify your ID by reading the NFC chip inside the passport or ID card.
It works in both directions. I’ve been shadowbanned from mastodon.social because one user misinterpreted my comment about something political (related to Germany), reported me and apparently their (German) mod was either lazy or followed the same misinterpretation and shadowbanned me - for life.
And there’s no way to object this as their support only answers to members. Which I am not.