Would be interesting to see if the Chinese and US communities eventually separate entirely, or if there will remain some significant cross over between them. The article implied significant cross over, but your experience so far seems less so?

I even dont think its Russian bots, just plain old capitalism and a general decline in journalistic integrity. Any article that hypes up XYZ, I assume is written by a marketing firm representing XYZ. :(

Definitely valid points, and I might be wrong. It definitely isnt a super glowing article, but “flocking to” part of the headline struck me as a bit hyperbolic, which is probably the root of my skepticism.

My conspiracy, if you want to call it that, is that I dont think article is the product of actual journalism. I think Xiaohongshu has paid for that article to be written, to give the impression that the influencers are moving to it, and its the next tiktok. One of the listed authors has never published anything else, and the site isnt exactly a mainstream news site.

I dont mean that your tone is bot like or anything, just that they would want authentic voices.

I do find it hard to beleive, because look at the reddit and twitter transitions. They either took years (bluesky is only barely starting to gain notability, and I’m not convinced that isn’t also doing astroturfing) or never happened (Lemmy userbase is a rounding error). Getting people to switch social media is very difficult. And tiktok isnt even banned yet.

Also, just because there are no ads, doesn’t mean that no one is propping up the business. Someone is paying to keep the servers running and lights on, and an astro turfing campaign isnt that expensive. Social media companies either grow or die.

So if your liking this new site, power to you, but I suggest you enjoy it while it lasts, because its going to have to become profitable somehow, and that is never good for the users.

With all due respect, this comment is exactly what a faked “Grass roots marketing campaign” would write. But your account has an extensive post history, so thats a lot more effort than a typical astro turf account.

Also, inflating subscriber numbers and view counts wouldn’t be out of the question either, remember Facebook video…

Yeah, this honestly sounds like a press release with made up “users”. Definitely part of a marketing campaign.

Every day, JS strays further from gods light :D

My favourite one is:

i -=- 1

Its perfectly ok to write that kind of email, most of us probably have done so. The critical thing is to not SEND that email…

Container overhead is near zero. They are not virtualized or anything like that, they are just processes on your host system that are isolated. Its functionally not much more different to chroot.

Spread on toast.

Bear grylls it. More seriously, the water is purified and recycled.

VSS equivalent would be btrfs snapshots or zfs snapshots.

Can you really copy a VSS to a new disk? For a new install, at some point you’ll need to reboot and go offline, so I don’t see the point in trying to keep uptime. If uptime matters, dont upgrade a disk, replace the entire system.

You can, and there are a number of options.

Easiest IMO is to install both drives, and then use dd to copy drive A to drive B, and then resize the partitions with gparted to fill the rest of the disk.

Do this from a live USB so that your not currently using drive A.

https://serverfault.com/a/4912

Note that /dev/sda might not be your first disk, so make sure you get them correct. Gparted can help you identify your disks.

Its networking is a bit hard to tweak, but I also dont find I need to most of the time. And when I do, its usually just setting the network to host and calling it done.

Are you using docker compose scripts? Backup should be easy, you have your compose scripts to configure the containers, then the scripts can easily be commited somewhere or backed up.

Data should be volume mounted into the container, and then the host disk can be backed up.

The only app that I’ve had to fight docker on is Seafile, and even that works quite well now.

Google now gives verifyably false information. So thats cool.

Searched today for “Dynmap default port”. Gemini gave me Minecrafts default port (25565), and then made up another port (25566). The actual port, as per the first real link, was 8123.

This is definitely not piracy related.

You can have an offline gitlab/forgejo and a public github. I do most of my work against a local gitlab, and mirror up to github for anything that needs to be shared.

I have a couple of projects mirrored down to my gitlab as a backup, and they are not online, so can’t realistically be DCMAd.

Redhat were very successful with the open source, but paid support model, so it could happen.

Inertia would be hard to overcome, anyone using sales force right now is probably not gonna want to risk a newcomer.