dsilverz

joined 5 days ago
[–] dsilverz@catodon.rocks 2 points 19 hours ago

@nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

Speaking for myself, parts of my current "religion" (belief system) literally stems from what's often referred to as "mythologies", such as ancient Mesopotamian beliefs. I'd say this word is (wrongly, IMHO) used to describe any polytheistic belief system which existed in the past and are believed to hold no living devotees nowadays (which is also referred to as "dead religions"), except... It's quite of a biased assumption, given how I myself worship goddesses such as Ereshkigal and the one who was initially known as Lilitu, Lilith (and I'm not even a Sumerian person).

IMHO, there's no such thing as a dead religion or dead language, if a random someone can try to revive the ancient system, even if idiosyncratically to ground their personal worldviews on something that was once well-established. By the way, there are many other modern attempts on reviving ancient religions such as Temple of Sumer (a religious organization trying to restore and bring awareness regarding Sumerian and other Near Eastern religions). I particularly don't belong to any religious group (yet; sometimes I really long for one, as I used to belong to a Luciferian sect a few years ago before Lilith suddenly pulled me into Her burrowing-owl-y nest underground like the rabbit (cunicularia) pulled Alice into the Wonderland to meet the Queens), my belief system is quite of a temple of one human, with me being the devotee and the preacher to myself preaching about the Dark Mother Goddess, cosmic Queen of the Night.

[–] dsilverz@catodon.rocks -1 points 1 day ago

Both for the user and for the server/instance, it wouldn't be wise.

From the perspective of instances, imagine having large instances (such as yours, lemmy.world, with almost two hundred thousand accounts as per FediDB current statistics) implementing a cron to compile and store a potentially large JSON/ZIP file for every account (including potentially inactive accounts), and having the storage requirements suddenly doubling (as the media files will become repeated twice in the server storage), which will make the storage quota/bill go through the roof for the instance owner(s) and/or, at best, having the Fediverse platform momentarily competing for storage resources with the backup cron. Notice I'm not just talking about the textual contents, but also about media (photos and videos) which should be included in the backup (otherwise the backup would be partial).

From the perspective of users, especially those who are prolific participants with thousands of posts, imagine having the instance pushing a large ZIP file into your browser's (or phone's, especially if you're using a third-party app to access the Fediverse) storage every week or so, potentially in an non-consented manner, maybe pushing the backup media as new files so your gallery app (when in mobile environments) will get suddenly cluttered by potentially repeated images and videos.

Nonetheless, for most Fediverse platforms, the exporting feature is quite "automatic" already, as the backup file is often built in less than 10 seconds upon requesting it, but it only does so when the user requests so; given the unlikelihood that all users will request their backups at the same time, the backup feature (generally) doesn't overwhelm the server, but it would if this automatic backup feature were a thing.

[–] dsilverz@catodon.rocks 1 points 1 day ago

@general@lemmy.world

This file contains your subscriptions, follows, profile settings etc.

Just an addendum so Fediverse newcomers don't assume things from your "etc.": one's own old posts/replies can't be transferred across accounts, at least not without republishing, IIRC. There are Fediverse platforms that allows for "importing" these from an old account (the platform I use, a Misskey fork, has this feature), but all it does is republishing anew, as neither authorship nor timestamp from old activities are reassignable, as per ActivityPub standards. To complicate things, republishing isn't something nice to do when the person has a history comprised of thousands of activities, including replies/threads where handles for Lemmy communities are mentioned (so I guess each post would end up as new, repeated threads/replies across the threadiverse).

I say this because I'm currently facing this exact conundrum myself: for almost a year, I've had a Calckey account (@dsilverz@calckey.world) from which I've posted a thousand notes, (mostly) including interactions with Lemmy and hundreds of microblogging, but then the instance I was housed in started getting some issues beyond the scope of this reply (rule 5). I saw myself in need of seeking another instance, one that uses the same platform (because I liked Misskey, its features and how it allows for having both threadiverse communities alongside a personal feed), and I found the nice Catodon instance I'm currently housed in.

I was able to easily customize my new account's settings with the same settings that of my earlier account (because both platforms share the same Misskey origins), including the vampe UI theme I use, but the only thing I can practically do regarding my thousand posts is exporting these as a JSON and redownloading their media in some kind of post-mortem archive, because even republishing my microblogging posts would be unfeasible (I mean, technically speaking I could, it doesn't mean I should, because it'd end up as a flood of posts, so I'm not doing it).