You can support it for free by generating content or even just liking/boosting other folks content.

Don’t put yourself in a precarious position unnecessarily

My reading or the exchange is that Eugen only confirmed they’re working on “updates that would improve onboarding on Mastodon”; not “Starter Packs” specifically.

Then there is QNAP. Apparently their system QTS is not as polished as DSM, but everything needed should still be there. There’s similarly priced, similarly equipped TS-462. It’s just dual-core CPU, but has more RAM (not upgradeable though) and it seems it can accept M.2 as storage at least. As per internet research, the build quality is just as good as Synology.

I have the QNAP TS-462. It’s my first and only NAS so I don’t have any points of comparison for you. Feel free to ask any questions you have and I can try and answer for you.

I do want to point out that the RAM is upgradable, but, unintuitively, only on the smaller 4GB RAM SKU; the 8GB RAM SKU has the memory soldered on.

I learned this the hard way and had to return the first one that arrived, but I currently have the memory maxed out at 16GB.

I’d start with Backblaze’s 2023 drive report

Most of my wish list have nothing to do with safety because I’m a straight cis white guy and so my experience of Mastodon is that its userbase is painfully anodyne.

This sounds so backwards to me. Do you know how you could create an environment for a less painfully anodyne userbase?

I wasn’t even trying to be hurtful

Next time try to not be hurtful. Internalize the difference.

we should be able to have sane and respectful conversations

I agree but then some folks come along and fuck it up.

So to all the mods out there: Your personal opiniondoes not give you the right to delete comments and block users, just because their opinions don’t align with yours!

Absolutely it does. Their sub; their rules. Lemmy is not a democracy.