Just a noob who likes homelabs and selfhosting
Thank you!
A scary thing about the Fediverse right now is that some instances have many of the bigger communities. And the owners of the instance can literally shut it down at any moment (or stop federating with you).
And right now there isn’t an incentive to keep instances alive.
Ok so apparently it’s a pinned post in their community.
Tldr Lemmy.world has open registration, which means more trolls/extremists and they are tired of dealing with them.
If I’m not mistaken both Beehaw and Lemmy.world are pretty big mainstream instances.
Why has Beehaw decided to stop federating with lemmy.world?
First I’d like to apologize because I originally wrote less than 30TB instead of more than 30TB, I’ve changed that in the post.
A colocation is a data center where you pay a monthly price and they’ll house your server (electricity and internet bandwidth is usually included unless with certain limits and if you need more you can always pay extra).
Here’s an example. It’s usually around $99/99€ per 1U server. If you live in/near a big city there’s probably at least a data center that offers colocation services.
But as I said, it’s only worth it if you need a lot of storage or if you move files around a lot, because bandwidth charges when using object storage tend to be quite high.
For <7 TB it isn’t worth it, but maybe in the future.
Depending on how much storage do you need (>30 TB?), it may be cheaper to use a colocation service for a server as an offsite backup instead of cloud storage. It’s not as safe, but it can be quite cheaper, especially if for some reason you’re forced to rapidly download a lot of your data from the cloud backup. (Backblaze b2 costs $0.01/gb downloaded).
Immich is a very promising app.
Right now it’s probably the most ambitious in terms of functionality, and a lot of people recommend it as an alternative to Google Photos.
However since it’s still in Beta, if you use it, be sure to have a backup of those photos somewhere else. Just in case.
The thing is that right now it’s not worth it to buy a raspberry pi if you want to selfhost. It is 4 years old at this point but it cost 50% more than when it was released.