As per most tech things, though, I don’t think there’s a good end-to-end guide out there (lots of piecemeal ones, though) and having good research skills and being able to fill in the gaps in guides yourself is pretty important.

Yeah for sure. For most non-techy folks using one of the arrs setups or even plex has a pretty steep curve.

It’s why Netflix will continue to make subs.

I think what’s missing from this article is they have had a show or two lately that have been solid. Ie: the Diplomat. And that will drive up subs. But not sure it has the staying power. Folks will flip back to something else when another service drops something good.

What they don’t explain is that you need two accounts (or more) for these to work.

A Usenet account.

An indexer account that is basically a search engine.

You also need a download app like nzbget. And ofc you setup an account on that and plug it into sonarr.

And an account for the nas or storage if it’s not local.

Sonarr searches the index, finds the files, talks to nzbget and says “download that shit for me and put it together”. Nzbget uses the Usenet account to fetch the stuff, assembles the parts and tells sonarr I’m done. Sonarr then renames it and puts it on your nas.

It’s admittedly fairly abstract, even for someone seasoned in systems admin work.

agree on that 100%

Agree. Hoping development makes searching for communities across instances significantly easier.

I feel like the largest site that needs to crumble and create alternatives is YouTube. Well over Reddit or twitter or twitch etc.

It’s expensive from a storage and bandwidth aspect. And having a giant service own all of it is rife for abuse, which happens frequently with how YouTube handles copyright and DMCA.

Couldn’t really tell you. I haven’t done any moderation in many years. And have no knowledge of how their DB system or backups are structured. But make no mistake, Reddit has admin rights and the ability to takeover any sub if they don’t feel the mods are doing a good job, and there’s been precedence for such action, either due to mod abusing and shuttering a sub, or just not engaging at all or even just going afk and abandoning a sub.

I dont think Mods can outright delete comments or submissions, only hide them. Only a user can overwrite and delete their comments. So…unless basically all users started scrubbing comments it would be hard i would guess. And i wouldnt be shocked if they had replicas or DB backups crawled at the page/submission level to roll back off of to protect such an act. Heck Pushshift was doing about that. I really detested that guy for how he handled privacy. Even had people sign up to exemptions and just straight ignored specific requests to have their user pages excluded from crawling.

100%. At best they get a couple days and then it’ll be “okay kids you had your fun, parties over and open up. “

If they don’t new mods will be installed.

agree. I am hoping the federated instances wont be overwhelming for folks.

Reddit admins will likely just boot the mods and takeover the subreddits. Especially the bigger ones. Heck they may even do that to ones that blackout at all, or past the 14th.

They have threatened and done similar to things like firearm subreddits.

I agree with most of what you said. I would say classifying SVB as a seizure is probably not accurate. The FDIC only came in when it was clear SVB was going to fold and in fact insured far more than the 250k per account guaranteed. Mainly to try and stem a run on midsize banks because

1. Many companies had large holdings, undiversified in these banks

2. The banks were borderline negligent with how they handled those deposits, sticking them all in “safe” government bonds that ruins liquidity.

Once the interest rate on the bonds was lower than the base borrowing rate, no one would buy the bonds instead of just buying new bonds with a much higher guaranteed return.

So, given that, I would say the FDIC instead bailed out the banks. Something they would never do for you or I, or even a business with similar valuation as any of the banks customers.

The only thing you get out of rss is the title of the post, and a link to the post comments and whatever the external link was (if it wasn’t a self post).

I use rss to monitor a few subreddits since I run my own rss reader and monitor all sorts of feeds.

This would be huge. The first instance I joined on lemmy has been down now for a few days. Don’t even know how to reach the guy that runs it. It was not some super small one based on the site recs at the time.

I’m a sysadmin by trade and considered just building my own but don’t have the time to solo run it should it gain traction

Agree. I haven’t used the main page in a long time and mostly used alt accounts for specific things and opsec and multi-reddits to separate interests on my main account. But I use it less and less every day and have for a while.

I suppose the one thing that would bring me back it professional moderation and a system that ensured moderators were benevolent.

Too many subs basically only have teenage kids moderating it because any mature adult doesn’t have the time nor the patience. That meme YouTube video of your average moderator is way too accurate, and it’s true even in the niche communities.

Anything that ensures accountability, especially personal accountability is looked at negatively. Its not an american thing uniquely. But it is embraced, especially in the last 20 years by companies. Its why general support is so poor, especially technical support.

I made a short comment on how to do it here

https://beehaw.org/comment/103992