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Cake day: June 5th, 2023
  • Otter@lemmy.caOPtoFediverse@lemmy.world•We have launched a PieFed instance!English
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    13 days ago

    Someone else already gave a decent explanation :)

    Can you try these two guide pages and see if they help? They have some diagrams

    https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/get-started

    https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/lemmy/for-users/detailed-overview

    So lemmy.ca and piefed.ca have different feeds altogether when I view them, are they two separate things then

    They are two separate platforms, made by different teams. The feeds look different for a few reasons

    • piefed.ca is brand new and so it is missing a lot of the content. As people start using it, the default logged out feed will start to look closer to other instances
    • An instance only pulls the content that its users are subscribed to. When you make an account on an instance and you are the first person to subscribe to a community, hitting subscribe will tell your instance to start pulling in those posts. That is why every instance will be slightly different regardless.

    I’m not really clear on how communicating freely between them works

    Unlike Lemmy and Mastodon, which are somewhat different formats (posts in communities) vs. short text posts on a user’s profile), Lemmy and PieFed are more or less the same. So it should be a lot closer in experience. Whatever you can subscribe to, comment on, or vote on within lemmy.ca, you should be able to do the same on piefed.ca

    Especially because we are running both instances, and so they will have similar block lists.

  • Otter@lemmy.catoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Recent commits suggest Signal is preparing a paid subscription for backups.English
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    15 days ago

    I commented this in the other thread, sharing it here as well

    I’ve been waiting for this feature for a while actually 😅

    When I last saw people talking about it, there were rumors that there would be a reasonable free backup (ex. up to 1 Gb) with relatively cheap paid options above that. I scrolled through the GitHub link and couldn’t confirm or deny if this is still/actually the case.

    Backups are the #1 pain point for friends that tried to switch to Signal, especially for those on iOS. I have a local backup + sync setup for my own phone, but it’s a lot to expect for the average casual user to set up.

    Whatsapp has backups to Google Drive, which is better than nothing but not ideal. It’s time Signal had a reliable backup method for casual users

  • Otter@lemmy.caOPtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Where hyperscale hardware goes to retire: Ars visits a very big ITAD siteEnglish
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    25 days ago

    A big part of this site’s pitch to its clients, including the “hyperscale” customers with gigantic data centers nearby, is that each device is labeled, tracked, and inventoried for its drives—both obvious and hidden—and is either securely wiped or destroyed. The process, commonly called ITAD, is used by larger businesses, especially when they upgrade fleets of servers or workers’ devices. ITAD providers ensure all the old gear is wiped clean, then resold, repurposed, recycled, or destroyed.

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