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Well it for sure killed my entire "Suspension of disbelief".

Yeah, but the Prussian led is the crucial bit there. Austria wouldn't have had one bit of a problem with a German Reich led by the Austrian monarchy, which is conversely something Prussia was unable to accept. Catch-22 type situation. Hence the split.

Well it's not like Austria put up much of a fight... But anyway, my larger point was that Hitler, like many other people on both sides of the border, was explicitly opposed to the national distinction between Austria and Germany. They thought that the founding of the German Reich to the exclusion of Austria in 1871 was a mistake and that Austria should be part of Germany. So saying that somebody born in Austria, who believes Austria is part of Germany, is "a fully integrated German" (as opposed to Austrian) doesn't make much sense I think.

Hitler was a fully integrated German.

What's that even supposed to mean? He Anschluss'ed Austria basically the first chance he got.

But in this case its a bit different, and the sending looked successful.

Yeah I got that. But couldn't you (theoretically) add a "resend activities from " option to the API? So you can ask other servers for things you missed. I mean what happened here is one problem where that may be useful, but another would be something like having to restore from day old backups, being a new instance with no history, a network outage, or missing things for whatever other reason.

Like I said I don't know the data structures involved, but in my layperson head it sounds possible, although you may have to throttle it to prevent abuse I guess.

Some later part of the Risen RPG series IIRC.

Well if you want the real basics of self-hosting then depending on your level of knowledge you may want to follow a Linux tutorial like this one: https://labex.io/linuxjourney

This will teach a lot of basic knowledge and terminology you may need when setting up or maintaining containers and VMs. Admittedly, this is somewhat tangential knowledge to your immediate goals, but if you want to actually use your self-hosted stuff remotely later this will become critical to doing so safely.

As for the map, for me it was something like:

Local LXC/QEMU → Remote LXD over SSH on a RPi → Proxmox on a dedicated box through the webinterface

In hindsight I would have started with Proxmox directly though I guess. One big downside is it doesn't integrate well with Docker containers, you have to set up a full VM as your Docker host. On the upside though you can install LXC containers from https://www.turnkeylinux.org/ in a few clicks, so it's very good for just testing stuff out and playing around.

IDK man, console access and cheats are still pretty common for PC games. Although there are exceptions too, at least one game series I know, first few titles had console access and cheats, then they removed it after they stupidly left DLC content accessible through console commands in the base game... Which is pretty much an example of what OP claimed. So maybe it's not always the reason, but it sure is sometimes.

Hmm, yeah, the post I linked above is still missing some 50 comments, and most of the post and comment upvotes. Kind of interesting though that it acquired 92/148 comments (at time of writing), before you pushed the fix yesterday it had 2 upvotes and 0 comments. Guess the upvotes are just what has been added since then.

Would be nice if there was a contingency option for server admins for situations like this, no? Something like "Resynch federation events from to ", maybe limitable to certain instances/communities/posts. Not sure if that's possible with how the federation works currently, but if it is it would be a good feature I guess.

Nice. Will old comments/votes also start coming in? I can see posts popping up, but many votes/comments still seem to be missing.

Edit:

Example of things still missing:

https://lemmy.ml/post/48501463
https://lemmy.world/post/47922684

Edit2:

Oh yeah, the post seems to be gaining stuff as time goes on, just added another upvote and a comment thread from 22 hours ago.

OP already mentioned in the post body that the problem doesn't seem to show up on that site. Just compare the TopDay/Active sort of different instances, lemmy.ml is missing a whole lot of full posts by now, not just comments.

Nah, something's wrong here on lemmy.ml. Compare these sites:

https://lemmy.world/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=TopDay
https://lemmy.ml/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=TopDay

On world it's FuckAI post with just north of 900 upvotes, on ml it's mostly local posts with the first one having 62 upvotes...

Same is true when comparing other instances, they all look similar to worlds TopDay sort, ml is the odd one out.