This is the most simple solution and probably a lot safer than the alternatives. Another good option would be to use OpenVPN.

If a program screws up and crashes while writing data to your drive, it can take out more than just the data it was dealing with. RAID will simply destroy data on both your drives at the same time, making any data recovery impossible.

Someone on lemmy here suggested Restic, a backup solution written in Go.

I back up to an internal 4TB HDD every 30 minutes. My most important files are stored in an encrypted file storage online in the cloud.

Restic is good stuff.

Part of being free and accessible for everyone is allowing defederation.

That’s not how the fediverse works though. Google and Facebook were the two biggest sites online, but even then they still couldn’t “squash” the world wide web, the most successful federated service.

By being the first major social network to adopt activityhub, it means they have an advantage when/if activityhub takes off.