I did this a few years ago. I set my status message to "Starting on [date] I'll be available only on Signal/sms." and that was it. A few frieds/family members moved, most of them not, but I don't miss it a bit.
Just did this a few hours ago. I don't see anything in my timeline and I listened to a full album since then. It works. I misunderstood what the tool does. I was looking in my timeline to see if there's something posted.
I’m not a fan of Borg because you can’t backup directly to object storage (eg. Backblaze B2/Amazon S3/Wasabi/etc), you have to backup to a local or mounted drive, then upload the backup.
Which in fact is a good thing, because it's better to have a local copy and an offsite one. rclone copies it for you without issues.
I think you have a wrong understanding of software auditing. Software can be closed source and 3rd party auditors can assess if it has good privacy and security implementations.
Being closed source doesn't necesarily mean it's bad (for privacy/security).
What's the point of "hurting" reddit if you go back after some time? It's like Stockholm syndrome, when you go back to your rapist.
Anyway, I've seen a lot of great discussions on lemmy and I hope smart people will stay here. I really don't care about how many we are, I care about the quality of the posts and discussions. And yes, I know there's a lot of shit on lemmy too, but I think I'm able to filter that shit: I learned on reddit.
I don't understand why people have expectations from a young platform like it's supposed to be the new reddit/facebook all of a sudden. I lived through the digg->reddit move and believe me, it was worse than what we see on lemmy sometimes. Let it grow and it will have a chance. Offer help when you think some communities aren't correctly moderated or when you think you have better ideas. People usually will try to help (not all the time).
you have to take into consideration that not all people have your level of pay, your quality of life and so on. That 'measly fee' is two day's pay for some and they can't afford that. Yes, I understand that the dev has to make a living, but I think it's a bit expensive. And I was paying for Sync (for reddit) since the beginning. I even got Pro for my wife, who didn't use it at all, just to help LJ.
I just tried it and it's slow as fuck for some reason. I have a Galaxy S20+ and Sync is buttery smooth, as is Liftoff, but Voyager is stuttering and taking some time to open any thread when I tap it.
Torrenting from RED and OPS, organizing with beet, listening with mpd locally and navidrome remotely.