another part that I know from personal experience: you made something new, kinda tiny, not 100% there - you probably didn’t expect this to really take off (see fediverse in general), so you don’t go all the way to fix UX problems or annoying things - because your stuff may not ever be used by more than those few hundred people (which is a lot already for hobby projects), it may even die out in two years

and then the bomb drops and you have random users trying to use your side project

imagine linux would get adopted overnight by a few thousand windows users that didn’t like the windows 11 migration…

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All governments and API server owners have shown that this is a wish and not reality.

Daily offsite to a backup server via restic (+ a self written wrapper for multiple targets). Restic can also run with anything else (sftp, s3 APIs etc). Kinda modern duplicity / borg. Full encrypted and incremental.