If OP is attempting a 3-2-1 Backup scheme, this is an irrelevant argument.

OP wants to store a backup in a different physical location while trusting that it won’t be used to train AI. They are looking for services that can satisfy that.

I play disc golf.

Sometimes finding my disc is a safari

The answer to your question is yes

Yeah, I’m just split between that or an odroid hc4. I wouldn’t even need to buy a case for it.

What model pi? How responsive do you find it?

I’m also in the market for this.

I’m considering setting up a raspberry pi4 nas, and would love to hear pros and cons from people with experience on the matter.

I assume there are faster solutions, but I think it should meet my needs well

Wow thanks for such a verbose post.

That’s given me a lot to chew on

The tools are lacking, as you said.

This post is not about how things should be. It’s not about how things might be one day. It’s about how they are right now

Thanks, I really appreciate that. Education was the foremost goal of this post, and I’m glad some of that may have come through

I have absolutely seen some highly upvoted pillars of salt over there.

The intent of Beehaw appears to be giving people a safe place that they can return to, but they can venture out just as well. That ideal does not mesh with an allowlist. The goal doesn’t appear to be to curate a specific experience, it is to block bad actors from harassing Beehaw’s users on Beehaw’s hosted communities.

With this in mind, I think it absolutely does make sense for lemmy to include permissions that restrict what foreign users can do vs what local users can

Broadly speaking, that’s correct.

Regardless of how development goes in the future, this post is meant to highlight the realities of the current, and the ideological realities of what content on the fediverse is, as well as where you are served it from.

There exists no means to be private without defederating from literally every other instance.

I agree. These mechanisms are in place to stop the fediverse from becoming fedChan

Sure, and I should’ve been more clear and said people need to understand what the Fediverse is.

This is, ultimately, about what federation means and how this platform operates. Its deficiencies, and the way things work currently to address those deficiencies. What I have posted is just as true for kbin as it is for lemmy.

I do, personally, think it’s reasonable for an instance to have “private” communities exclusive to their own users. This is likely a subject that comes down to personal belief, but after dealing with so many trolls and bad actors on other platforms, I absolutely do see a need to have those kinds of permissions.

When/if refederation happens, the comments lost to the abyss will stay lost to the abyss. The source of truth will not update based on the past updates of a formerly defederated instance to my understanding

People need to understand what lemmy is. This is not monolithic social media like facebook or reddit. People need to understand that, or the mismatch between how they think it works and how it actually works is going to cause a lot of mental anguish that could be avoided.

As they say in software development, 8 hours of debugging can save you from one hour of reading the manual.

The only way to not address things on a per-server basis is for moderation tools to be expanded in scope. Maybe that will be how things work one day, but it is not how things can work right now.

Thank you for phrasing my point so eloquently.