Or just buy and keep a secondary device in advance

Umbridge feels like she was based on a woman Rowling personally knew. Don’t know much about Rowling past but I wouldn’t be surprised if she had a weird messed up childhood

How do you find such roles, coming from corporate roles this feels like it would be better for my mental health and WLB, plus your work contributes to scientific progress which feels better than just making rich people richer.

Damn finally someone got into the management position and made positive changes instead of just drinking the company cool aid and becoming a part of the problem. I was very frustrated at my last job where they would pretend to half heartedly follow some Scrum / Kanban process and pretend we are doing proper project design, and task estimation when everyone was just checked out and you as a developer are just expected to figure things out on your own and if there’s any delays in the project because the stakeholders changed requirements or other external factors they won’t adjust the time line and blame the dev for the delays if those deadlines aren’t met. All this focus on the “process”, the meetings the pointless RTO, but not one person was interested in getting shit done. No wonder the company had to resort to layoffs. Hopefully at my next job I’ll find a team that’s better managed.

Thanks for the detailed reply that helps, this sounds really interesting, with the late stage capitalism we are going through, I’ve lost all interest in private corporate controled social networks, hence the switch to Lemmy, but the instance owner is still a single point of failure with Lemmy but at least you can switch to another instance.

I have a few concerns about Plebbit though.

A - with torrents you know the size of the torrent beforehand and can decide if you can download it all and continue seeding it so long as you have the space for it on your drive, but with a forum like Plebbit, how would a user know how much space on their drive Plebbit will take for the Plebbit content they interact with. Is there a way to dedicate X gigabytes of limited storage space for it and anything above that gets purged to make space for new data?

B - One of the best uses Of Reddit imo is that it’s very easy to Google for something and find a relevant Reddit thread, especially for something niche, since Plebbit only keeps the most popular content and the rest goes away if not seeded, does it mean it won’t be a good for niche archival data, maybe that’s a use case that Plebbit isn’t design to handle and that’s okay.

C - Bots are a big concern for most social media, especially the ones used for spreading propaganda and misinformation, how does a P2P social forum like Plebbit plan to handle bots.?

If there’s no central server then where is all the data stored?. With Lemmy I know the instance creator has to host it all on his own server.