I don’t think its too bad, but it probably depends a lot on a lot of factors.

Since I first started my hardware got a lot stronger, and nextcloud, php, and mariadb have all improved and so my experience has gotten pretty decent.

Remember though, there’s a ton of biases here, so I could be wrong…

He honestly makes some really good points. Everywhere you go there’s an implicit and sometimes explicit threat: “you better do what we want or we’re shutting the world down for you and you’ll be all alone”.

He makes some good points about those limitations and then talks about Alex Gleason and his view that nostr is the path for the future.

I’ve got nostr on my phone, I run a nostr relay, but the thing for me it isn’t comfy like my soapbox/rebased instance. I’m hoping with the recent news that Alex will be doing more work with nostr (though that was such a badly written article it might even just be fake, I dunno) that he’ll integrate nostr into soapbox so we’ll that its just another part of the fediverse on my comfy instance rather than a whole other app I cant expect to even use from anywhere I’m not an admin user.

Nextcloud Notes has become my go-to (Oh look, SJ is advocating for Nextcloud again! How original!)

You’re not wrong, but my point is that we’re dealing with laws of math here. You can’t just go “Just accept less profit” when the majority don’t make enough profit to survive. That money has to come from somewhere.

My mom ran a couple restaurants at different times in her life. She’s a high school drop-out who has never had a great job so it isn’t like she’s some high class capitalist. Both restaurants failed within a year or two, and she came out each time quite a bit worse than she went in. The company in charge of the building locked the doors and kept all her stuff in lieu of rent. It’s pretty brutal. She lost all the money she put into it well beyond any money she might have made on the business itself, and she went into debt each time as a result of the failing business as well.

I know it sounds really easy to get all huffy and self-righteous, but 60% of restaurants do not make it past the first year, and 80% go under in five years.

It’s hard out there. If the place isn’t making money, everyone loses their job.

That’s where we eventually started getting feezer pizzas instead of take-out. Compared to the pain in the ass of ordering food (assuming the place is even open), it was easier just to throw one in the oven, and way cheaper too.

I’m cheap.

So far, Conduit is the only answer for me, since I don’t own any quantum supercomputers.

What the hail?

I think it depends a lot on the federated service.

For mastodon, you follow individual users, so if there’s a million users or ten million or a hundred million, their instances will only be contacting other intances they’re federating with so it’s quite scalable.

For Lemmy, you follow communities, so every server pulls all the posts and comments the common community. This means that for an instance like lemmy.world hosting lots of different big communities, every new server hammers the one central instance.

A strategy for improving the situation I think would be to spread the load. Instead of everyone piling into megacommunities, if people spread out into smaller more tight knit communities over many different instances. Of course, this isn’t really compatible with the purpose of having communities like that.

It does seem to suggest that ActivityPub isn’t necessarily the most appropriate protocol for this purpose, even though it’s what was used because it’s the de facto standard on the fediverse.

I did. Now the cycle starts again.

As long as you didn’t steal them it’s halal

First day this week I got a good night sleep

I started drinking that crystal light caffeinated stuff, and I’ve massively increased the amount I drink in a day since I’m almost always drinking at least two full 1l jugs of the stuff over the course of a day in addition to whatever else I drink.

It’s like that time I only had two drinks – a bottle of wine and a bottle of vodka. (oh my god I died for the next two days don’t do what I did)

Can’t get mad at me for having only two drinks!

Even with everything that happenes here he’s a son of a privileged elite. This is just a show, he’ll get off with a slap on the wrist if anything, Just like all the other times.

This is exploding-heads. We look at the mass corruption in the system every day and we see it in action. It’s that context under which you need to understand such a post. Reality right now is a giant black pill, and even if it looks like something is getting better it’s usually just a lie meant to placate people.

The plural of anecdote is not data. One outlier doesn’t change a decades long trend. (They say that a lot with climate change, where one cool summer doesn’t mean it isn’t happening, and one cool day definitely doesn’t mean it isn’t happening)

Hunter was actually about to get away scot-free, and it was only because his counsel did something so unimaginably egregious as directly defraud the court by sending a fraudulent email purporting to be from the state prosecutor to get an inconvenient piece of data removed from the record did he lose his sweetheart deal.

Every other data point until now says that any time this crime family is caught doing something bad the entire global establishment is there to bail them out including dropping charges that would stick for anyone else, hundreds of intelligence officials signing a letter claiming a true piece of evidence was faked by Russia, impeaching a sitting president for just mentioning it to another president, and overall the media and the police and the courts giving them sweetheart deals to keep any consequences from happening.

It’s crazy how a political party that sees privilege in Appalachian trailer parks magically goes three monkeys when it’s a former vice president’s son.

If we all self-host, then that’s going to do something very interesting – the idiot activist will have to do the same amount of effort to hack one instance as they did before, but instead of having hundreds or thousands of users affected, it will affect a handful. Take a look at a DDOS attack where many different computers are hijacked in order to attack one target. This is sort of a reverse of that, where there are many targets, and the value of each one goes way down. If our enemies had to attack 100 websites in order to be effective, or even better a thousand websites, they are going to need an attack 100 or 1000 times more intense to get the same effect.

The mass hatred for this move blows my mind. Especially from people who swear up and down that they’ve already left twitter.

No, I’m saying it does work, but other clients might not.