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If it ain't broke…
You have regular backups already. Unless you want to add fault tolerance with something like RAID, I don't see why you need to buy anything right now.
I think the assumption is not that adblockers alter the user agent info, but that they also block other resources, so StatCounter won't see those users at all, leading to under-reporting.
Which sampling bias do you think will be ignored by the RETVRN types?
- Worse movies are less likely to survive and be distributed.
- Only 'classics' will overcome a preference for watching newer movies.
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That would have been a much better President Clinton.
"Instance" seems too jargon-y to me as well, and "proxy" is even worse. "Server" and "host" are probably a little more familiar, but are still technical language.
Confusion doesn't stem from individual words; people need explanations and examples, but, as an alternative to "instance", if you want to extend the "communities" metaphor, then "society" as a cluster of communities is a natural option, particularly since it relates to the widely understood concept of social media. Since most people using the Internet also know what a web "site" is, you could use the sibilant linguistic association to help cement the notion:—
Each society has its own web site, such as:
aussie.zone, where the communities relate to Australia;programming.dev, where the communities discuss software development;- and
lemmy.film, where the communites are about movies.You can choose which society you want to join, although some will ask you to fill out an application. Most societies have connections to others, meaning that you can discuss things with people who are part of different societies. Often, you'll recognise them by their username saying that they're at (@) another site. Not all societies get along with one another, so which one you join will also affect who you can talk with.
Each society has its own rules it expects you to follow, whether you are a member of that society or just visiting.
This kind of language seems more intuitive to me anyway, although when I've tried describing instances and federation before now, I've likened instances to countries:—
You choose somewhere to live (and you can move later if you want). If there's a cross-border agreement, then you can send messages back and forth between people in each place.
but this has also meant stressing that your instance "country" doesn't have to match where you physically live, so a more general term probably would have been more useful.
chiS peD Soch wo'rIvpu' je is a classic of the genre, but the sanitization for a human audience is worse than the Disney treatment of the Brothers Grimm.
The kind of majoritarianism he dislikes is bad, though, so I'd tell him he's right to be concerned for the protection of minority rights, but the empowerment of "the common people" necessarily protects all people, or else it would create a more powerful group, who could not therefore be common, so a true democracy is actually what he wants.
Ridiculous examples are the most fun to find some kernel of agreement and then spin to the conclusion of "you're right, anarcho-communism is the best way forward for America".
Tell them that, while the "archy" of words like oligarchy means "rule" or "command", kratos means "power" or "strength", and that demos is "the common people".
A true democracy, therefore, is not rule by the majority—that would be ochlarchy or, more commonly, ochlocracy, ochlos being the "masses"—but an empowerment of the common people.
And that they're right, America is not a true democracy.
Great! A colony of centrists.
With centrist matriarchs, there's a reading here that they're terfs.