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• essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I don’t think they were talking about actual physical hardware.

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  • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Large centralised systems have international mirrors, you know that right?

    And even if they were somehow all in the same building, that wouldn’t be a good thing. Redundancy makes a service robust, and copying data isn’t exactly difficult.

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    • essteeyou@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m commenting on the impression that the guy was talking about the fact that the system is not federated, not that he was talking about physical hardware.

      For what it’s worth, I’m a senior developer who spent 8 years at Amazon partially working on developing and scaling systems that received millions of requests per day.

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      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.net ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yeah, I’m assuming that too. Although on my first reading they appeared to be making fun of the way the fediverse does things, on my second reading I think they might be making fun of how people talk about the fediverse, in which case my response wasn’t appropriate. Oh well ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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