Dillo has all the modern-web functionality of lynx, all the keyboard-driven capacity of Safari, and all the UI/UX appeal of an abandoned brutalist shopping mall.

@gedvondur Roles include backing up linux and macos systems (possibly Android and IOS), media server, PXEboot / VM image server would be nice to have.

@charlag @craigmaloney

@gedvondur What would your suggestion for a LAN NAS in the 4-16 TB range be, HW & SW? I'd prefer smaller, quieter, and lower power consumption.

Synology's been one option. I have a Turris Omnia, which has a NAS enclosure kit available.

@charlag @craigmaloney

@gedvondur What's wrong with a Synology NAS?

@charlag @craigmaloney

@cwebber What we really need is a World Restore Day.

@Von_Hamsterwheel The problem with "smaller community with high-quality people" is that that's /precisely/ an anti-scalable option. If this grows (and if it starts as that, it almost certainly will), it'll be a /larger/ community with ... less high-quality people.

That's "The Normal Invasion" and "Minimum Viable User" problem in a nutshell (both recent tootstorms).

Question is: how do you preserve intelligence whilst growing scale? Or can you even?

Is Mastodon private? Does it protect your privacy?

No, not really.

Everything you post is public. Your follower and following lists are public. Even your "private" unlisted and direct messages ... are best described as "limited notification scope".

Why does this matter?

Consider Thailand's legal threat against SocMed followers of its critics:

https://globalvoices.org/2017/04/19/thailand-tells-internet-users-to-unfollow-junta-critics-on-social-media-or-face-consequences/

Q: How private is Mastodon / GNU Social?

A: Not very. Use email, XMPP, or other secure, encrypted protocols if you need privacy.

See: https://community.highlandarrow.com/notice/826830

@ultimape First: you're on mastodon.social, so you're on yet /another/ instance than either @webmink or myself. The fact that you see all six posts would indicate that someone on .social followed him earlier. Such as, say, @unixbhaskar one of Simon's followers.