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  • I don’t care for the argument one way or another; I’m not an EU resident and the whole thing is irrelevant to me as an individual.

    I’m merely pointing out neither the Fediverse/Lemmy/etc. nor Reddit as a platform cares for EU’s privacy concerns, and people should be well informed when entering either platforms, so they’re not doing so with the false sense of security that they’d be able to exercise those government granted rights effectively.


  • Good luck with that. Once the post federates out, the host instance can request for deletion, but any federated instances that receives the content doesn’t necessarily have to follow that request. They could easily modify their instance to not delete, they may reactivate the content from moderation log, they might have backup strategies that involves retaining data (for their own local legal reasons), etc etc.

    It’s probably best to assume any content that you post on Lemmy are out of your control and will live for much longer than you’d expect.

    This is not limited to just Lemmy but any federated systems. So regardless centralized corporation behind the service, or an open federated system; one way or another, whatever you post out there, its no longer yours to control.


  • One potential downside to this on the posts/comment front is that if the thread in question is not in a community your instance is federated with, any form of local redirect would yield just an empty post with no comments. Lenny’s current federation is primarily push driven, so when requesting a post from an unknown community will yield no historical comments, as your instance have never subscribed to the community and thus never received the push notifications. Whereas getting sent to the original instance, you’d be able to see the full interaction history and have a better picture of the intended discussion.





  • “Too complicated” feels like a cop out… there’s no question as to whether or not clients can send both, from best practice point of view, the party instilling the change should bore the burden of supporting both for some time. I cannot and do not want to change the current release train, but I hope you can take this into consideration into the future, for future breaking changes.





  • You’re missing the point. For most residential deployments, which appears to be the use case here in this thread, it is not viable to expect deployments pre configured with the intended final/stable quantity of drives. Say someone deploys 6 drives today, a sizeable commitment for most residential deployments, for a RAIDZ2 deployment, they cannot later down the line add 2 more, and then 2 more without affecting the overall redundancy (data on the new 2/2 drives will either have no redundancy or 1:1 redundancy in their own vdevs). Lets also not pretend everyone will easily have a spare cluster sitting around to house all current data while they’re rebuilding the cluster for expansion. This inability to linearly expand as compared to more conventional md raid (or even hardware raid assuming if you have enough ports), where the lowest denomination in expansion is 1 drive at a time, any given time, basically eliminates it as a suitable candidate for most residential usage, as vast majority of residential users will not be expanding their raid in quantities of 6, 8, or 10 drives — and even if they do, vast majority wouldn’t want to take the extra hit on “sacrificing” more drives to parity. All that are things that are perfectly normal and expected in the enterprise space, but not residential.

    And yes, the article I’ve linked has multiple updates which covers what is happening now. It’s not a stagnant outdated article. I’m well aware they’re intending to merge the vdev expansion PR, sometime this year, for the last I don’t even know how many years. I’ll re-evaluate ZFS when it is merged and appropriately battle tested in the wild.