Restic to Wasabi.

I used to use Backblaze B2, until I did the maths on how much it would cost me to restore. B2 storage is cheap yes, but the egress is so fucking expensive. It would have cost me hundreds.

Wasabi storage is equally cheap, and restoring won't cost me an arm and a leg.

I use the following scripts for Restic: https://gitlab.com/finewolf-projects/restic-wrapper-scripts

It seems like an easy way to share users across multiple instances

... but you don't need to have users in multiple instances. Register once, and use your home instance to interact with any content.

Remember, this is for an offsite backup scenario.

wasabi is cheaper than B2 unless… you store less than 1TB

Yeah, absolutely. In my case, I backup way more than 1TB.

you pay for any data you upload for 90 days minimum

Which is absolutely acceptable in a offsite backup scenario. The data there is present for a long time, and if you use a solution like Restic which has deduplication capabilities, this is not an issue.

You can only download the same amount as you store in a month without incurring egress costs.

This is false. You can only download the same amount as you store in a month without violating the terms of service. That said, I've been using Wasabi in a professional manner for a number of years now, and as long as it isn't a regular occurrence, you can always contact support and give them a heads up that you do need to have more egress in a month.

This only occurs if you have to do a full restore TWICE in a month, which I had to once due to our team not noticing that the SAS controlled had failed and was responsible for corrupting data; not the drives. Support was quick, and it was no issue. Still didn't pay for that egress.

How can any platform track what you are doing? lol

Do you seriously think Google doesn't track which applications you use when you login using your Google account via social login?

Whatever social login provider you use, for them, providing that service allows them to collect data they otherwise wouldn't.

Just a note, I migrated my account to lemmy.world

The solution for that is simple. Either self-host your own instance OR choose an instance where you can support (with money) the team hosting the instance.

Not really. That content still lives on servers with which that instance was federating with.

As opposed to when a large centralized platform (Reddit, Twitter) shuts down, in which case you do truly lose your history.