I’ve read your posts and believe I understand your stance. I fundamentally disagree.

This thing that you call a barrier to entry … I call it commitment and willinness to place your nuts on the line. These things are the basis of polite society. When they are allowed to work, they truly do so, and communities result. People with skin in the game act better. Instances provide governance in a natural, oganic way (despite your claim that its unnatural) that fallls directly from the structure.

You’ve made other points about needing fealty to an instance of people you don’t know up front and trusting your admins.
Yup. You are joining a social group. This is the natural order of things. Don’t like it, or want to tinker? Spin up your own.

It’s interesting to clearly understand your point, find you to be reasonable, and entirely disagree. :)

I very much might! Thanks

Wow. I respect your opinion, which was obviously carefully considered, and I completely disagree with your perspective about instances being a dead end.

As instances are currently structured, they are tied to web domain, and actually owned by somebody somewhere. That somebody has a level of commitment having setup hosting and configured the server itself, and likely to want to not lose their toys. If that somebody refuses to enforce order in their instance, they can be defederated. Thus, bad actors incur risk. There is power in this structure.

This is all public. Somebody owns it. It goes back to real people, who can have real consequences if they do bad things.

There’s a lot of people out there doing bad things. I don’t see a lot of that here.

I’ve seen a lot of crappy ways to organize people on the internet.
This one seems to work alright. For now.

I’m about to spin up a personal lemmy instance. It sounds like Vocta might be more suited to my needs, but the software’s deployment and use is pretty darn obtuse. Like, maybe that does what I want, but I really can’t tell. While you caught my interest here, I ultimately did not learn anything useful. Please explain this social web thing further if you were trying to make a point.

And yes. Votes are quite simply public. I’m all about exposing that.
People act better when they know they are observed.

They send fake (non-existing) actor ids for votes to obfuscate the identity of the real user. It is “compliant”, but completely against the spirit of a public social network.

Ok. This is a damn good reason not to run piefed. Votes are useful. Votes are public.

People that are acting in public, with a reputation to uphold and consequences, tend to act much more civil. And I want that. I want Lemmy to remain as civil as we can keep it.

I’m spinning up a new lemmy instance right now to run a copy of lemvotes and help break up this logjam. This whole question about votes needs to be over.

Its in the protocol. Votes are public.

Joe knows.

Well that’s just it. You might know Joe. You just don’t know.

Thx for finally explaining this for me. I’ve not quite understood it till now.
Not knowing this detail made some Japan stories very odd.

Right? It seems like a WeWork, except they will help you front as well.
For most circumstances, I would imagine this extends no farther than using their mailbox and address.
The lead-in of the article doesn’t well represent the details. Pretty interesting, regardless.

Let me explain the ‘pro’ comment. I’m active on the official forum. Most of the ‘pros’ there don’t use proxmox_backup_client. People I respect do not use that tool, probably each for their own reasons.

My own issue with PBS support for physical servers is that full recovery is DIY. You have to format disks and stand up at least a temp OS in order to wipe and start over.

I think I’ve scaled out PBS pretty far. My biggest datastores are 14 TB. That’s about 85 VMs. I use a multi-layer PBS setup for Backup and Sync at 5 geographic locations. A couple sites have hardware syncing to virtual, which in turn does site-to-site. I’m using PBS site-to-site sync to support a colo migration.

PBS is a great tool in rapid development. During the time I’ve used it, they introduced fleecing and all its many issues. There are more changes coming. As admins, we are supporting a moving target.

I believe the point is that it doesn’t do a snapshot stun or run out of a delta disk. Its a different technology. I know it does use qm snapshot. The tech docs I’ve read don’t quite fill in the details for me either. Much of the point of PBS architecture was to avoid that stun.

The proxmox_backup_client is not my bag. I’m glad it’s found a user. Most pros I know don’t touch it.

For anybody considering using the Proxmox ESXi Import Wizard, you should watch this video.

https://www.proxmox.com/en/services/training-courses/videos/proxmox-virtual-environment/proxmox-ve-import-wizard-for-vmware

Personally, I don’t watch tech videos. Give me the documentation and let me go. Well, the folks at Proxmox made the unusual decision of releasing the full and complete directions on using the Import Tool via this video. I don’t know of any other official source where you get the full intricate details of an optimal virtual machine import and conversion to VirtIO.

Ya, it sux. Watch the video anyway.