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It's super easy to migrate accounts on Mastodon. Even works fine to move an account from Mastodon to Akkoma for example.

I ended up with a second hand APC 1500. Contrary to some other models you can just monitor it with a standard USB cable, just the power cables with these inverted plugs are a bit hard to get these days.

Mbin is a fork that was startend to add some stuff the original Kbin dev didn't like. These days it seems Kbin is dead though, so basically Mbin is the new Kbin.

I thought about it, but apparently it needs higher water temperatures than what my solar-termal water heater and air-to-water heatpump usually produces, so I scrapped the idea again.

Cheaped out on UPS, now I have three basic small ones I have no use for (they work except the battery isn't good anymore). Would have been better spend a bit more right from the start.

Looks like the hardware replacement went mostly as expected, just the additional cooler for the still working SSD in the raid pool didn't fit due to some mainboard plastic part in the way, so it will have to continue with somewhat elevated temperatures. But I removed an old network adapter that was producing a lot of heat and improved the overall airflow in the case, so it should be ok. The new NVMe ssd came with a small cooler and so far the temperature looks much better.

Lemmy.world used to cost that much, but I think they downscaled a bit recently, or are at least planning to as the current growth of the userbase has slowed down.

I was actually surprised by that 150 figure when I first read it, as it is much cheaper than what the BlueSky documentation makes it sound.

It is certainly possible to collect that much in monthly donations, but then again... how do you build a loyal base of supporters for running a mostly hidden piece of infrastructure? People always complain about the instance focussed nature of the fediverse, but the ability to build communities around them and get people actually emotionally invested in their home instance is IMHO rather a strength of it. That is also why I am slightly sceptic of easy account migration tools, as it devalues the instance as yourhome base to a certain extend.

There are some people hosting their own identity server, but yes the centralisation of the main aggregator server seems to be by design as they even scare people away from trying by talking about the high resource requirements of doing so.

IMHO Bluesky is only federated in the sense that responsibility for content and moderation can be outsourced, but the user endpoint stays mostly in control of Bluesky. This makes a lot of sense if you think about it from a company perspective... outsource the legally and personnel critical parts and keep the ones that are lucrarive for advertisement and can be easily scaled by throwing hardware at it.

But you must be a real sucker to take them up on that very one sided offer...

Here we luckily have ample rain, but all the farms are just growing maize as animal fodder. Aside from some greenhouse grown vegetables there is little that could feed the local population should the supply chain break down, and I suppose it is a relatively good situation compared to many other places.

Bluesky is explicitly promoting their system as "choose your own censorship" kind of deal, which in the way it is framed could look very attractive to right-wingers looking for an alternative platform. While this is technically also true for the Fediverse, it isn't promoted as such, and rather has a reputation for the opposite, as most fedi server admins are center-left leaning.

Bluesky might be also more left-leaning right now as obviously there is little reason for right-wingers elsewhere to switch away from Shitter to another (mostly) centralised platform, but given the overall low user numbers this could switch very quickly.

I guess we will have to see how this develops over time and get some answers from Brazilians that have a deeper understanding of the current social dynamics there.

Due to the language divide it might end up as two distinct social spheres, like Fedi's Japanese bubble, but that's a best case scenario for Bluesky I guess.

It would be interesting to know more about the additional users. The banning of Shitter in Brazil is very much tied to internal politics and AFAIK it might be the Brazilian equivalent to MAGA that is currently mass-migrating to Bluesky.

If so, this might be a bad thing for them, as they probably don't want to get perceived as the Brazilian truth.social.

So just as a heads up. The replacement parts have arrived and I will probably find some time on the weekend to install them.

This will mean a down-time of approximately 30 minutes or so if everything goes well.