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- Comment on Self hosted instances 1 year ago:
I’ve found the biggest thing isn’t any real resource. My instance runs on a core 2 duo with 4GB of RAM, and I really try to get it to waste memory and barely fill the 4GB.
The thing is your instance will be blasted by all the other instances you subscribe to. If you subscribe to too many big communities you might find you’re locked out during peak times, but it should be just fine as long as you’re not crazy with follows like I am lol
- Comment on Amazon Says It Doesn't 'Employ' Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing 1 year ago:
Reality doesn’t care whether you care to play or not.
There’s a limited amount of resources, you can’t hire everyone on Earth, you can’t give everyone an unlimited salary. Everything past that you’re making decisions as to who gets what.
And by the way, if you make enough poor decisions eventually everyone loses their jobs.
- Comment on Amazon Says It Doesn't 'Employ' Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing 1 year ago:
That doesn’t have anything to do with what I said.
- Comment on Amazon Says It Doesn't 'Employ' Drivers, But Records Show It Hired Firms to Prevent Them From Unionizing 1 year ago:
Do you want to pay people more because they’re better at their job or do you want to pay people more because they’ve been warming a chair longer than anyone else?
- Comment on please defederate from exploding-heads.com and rammy.site 1 year ago:
I don’t want to create an echo chamber, so lets make sure that people I disagree with can never talk to anyone who doesn’t agree with them
- Comment on Is it actually bad for the network to self host, for only yourself, a Federated service? 1 year ago:
One big difference between the json requests and a user callling for the site directly is your instance pulls all the data all the time, whereas a user only pulls the data they use themselves.
- Comment on 1 year ago:
I don’t use RSS for lemmy or kbin communities. I’ve got nextcloud news for RSS feeds, and lemmy for communities I can interact with.
- Comment on Is it detrimental to the Fediverse network to self host, for only oneself, a Federated service? 1 year ago:
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.
- Comment on Do ActivityPub services work over "The Dark Web"/i2p/Tor? 1 year ago:
Depends on the specific instance. Some services run where they are natively accessible through tor, but most don’t.
Just remember that ActivityPub is a sharing protocol, and individual admins are fully capable of seeing everything. There is no end to end encryption, everything is stored in plain text.
- Comment on Increasing taxes to solve inequality is based on fundamentally wrong assumptions. 1 year ago:
Literally thought of it in the shower.
- Submitted 1 year ago to showerthoughts@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Comment on Why is my Lemmy experience feeling so lame? 1 year ago:
I’ve been preferring new or top X hours ago, then just choose the X for the last time you visited.
- Comment on Lemmy is more left leaning because the rights popularity seen on other social media are driven by bots that are not here. 1 year ago:
That’s just wrong. Totally ahistorical.
There’s a good chunk of the rest of the fediverse that’s more right leaning, for the most part they’ve actively avoided Lemmy because Lemmy was actively hostile to any kind of wrongthink. It was one of the things that really limited it’s growth because you could only be on Lemmy if you believed exactly what you were told to believe.
I stayed on the threadiverse through lotide despite it all, and despite having some pretty limited takes, I quickly found myself banned or defederated from many instances. To this day I don’t participate on those instances because I’m not welcome. Wolfballs and exploding-heads came to exist, but were similarly rejected and even now the very first thing to be done by many instances is defederating from those instances.
I’ve heard through the grapevine that some of the people who run fediverse instances are considering starting Lemmy instances now that the platform is growing.
- Comment on Disney getting out of physical media in Australia 1 year ago:
Why sell something once if they can sell it to you every month whether you use it or not?
- Submitted 1 year ago to energy@slrpnk.net | 1 comment
- Comment on Every economist on Mastodon just had their anonymity compromised by hackers from Yale University 🍿🍿🍿 1 year ago:
Who puts their real name into their mastodon account…?
- Comment on Why is youtube suggesting aggressive actions against protestors? 1 year ago:
It was the riots that most people I know of had problems with. The violence, the destruction of property (500 million dollars in Minneapolis alone, which is a lot), Secoriea Turner, an 8 year old little girl who was shot to death during protests for the crime of her parents trying to turn the car around in a Wendy’s parking lot. And the opportunistic looting done in the name of the “protests” and defended in the establishment media (how many news and opinion shows had that piece of garbage who wrote the book “In defense of looting” on?)
On the other hand, I was uncharitable in both my examples. Do you think the Canadian truckers were trying to secretly clone Hitler?
- Comment on Why is youtube suggesting aggressive actions against protestors? 1 year ago:
Everyone will have their personal perspective on certain protests based on a number of factors.
A lot of people wanted the BLM riots shut down with lethal force because of the senseless violence and destruction in some cities. Otoh, some people thought they didn’t go far enough. Someone whose city was destroyed would have a different perspective than someone whose city was just fine. People might have different views based on their view of the black community and their relationship with the rest of American society.
A lot of people thought the trucker convoy in Canada was a just fight against oppression, but many people thought they were just a bunch of antivaxx confederate Nazis and thought the use of any level of violence was justified because they were disrupting people’s lives and they were secretly trying to clone Hitler. There was a broad spectrum of views and they only represented a piece of that spectrum.
Real politics is usually more complicated than just good vs. evil, it’s really hard having one set of rules that apply equally and equitably to diverse people.
- Comment on Eating less meat ‘like taking 8 million cars off the road’ 1 year ago:
I dunno… I do like eating a lot of meat…
- Comment on Why is youtube suggesting aggressive actions against protestors? 1 year ago:
Presumably because that’s what lots of people are searching for.
Otoh, Google giving insane suggestions is sort of a meme by itself so who knows what they use?
- Submitted 1 year ago to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world | 14 comments
- Comment on Aussie Zone 2023/07/23 Usage still growing but slowing. 539 Active users in the last month 1 year ago:
One of the things I started to realize on the Fediverse is that it doesn’t take a lot of engaged users to have a really good time on a platform.
Congrats, here’s to more success in the future!
- Comment on Ubisoft reportedly deleting customer accounts with purchased games if they have been inactive for too long 1 year ago:
Huh. I’ve got some games on Ubisofts store… Well, maybe not anymore.
- Comment on is it likely that impeded videos will ever be a part of the lemmy experience? 1 year ago:
I’m surprised there doesn’t seem to be any way to display a video at least from another source. It’s common on the mastodon side.
- Comment on Sony CEO Tony Vinciquerra Says Offer To SAG-AFTRA Was “Best Ever Made” — AVP Summit 1 year ago:
If that’s all it was, then they’d be able to pop out a pay increase and end things. There’s a lot of other stuff on the table.
- Comment on Sony CEO Tony Vinciquerra Says Offer To SAG-AFTRA Was “Best Ever Made” — AVP Summit 1 year ago:
I suspect this is occurring because everyone knows establishment media is dying and people are trying to get the nicest deck chair on the titanic.
- Comment on Samuel L. Jackson Claims Strange Film Editing May Have Cost Him Academy Award Consideration 1 year ago:
I AM MOTHERFUCKING ACCEPTING THIS MOTHERFUCKING OSCAR!
- Comment on What are your opinions on Matrix? 1 year ago:
To me, the biggest problem with Matrix is that Synapse and Dendrite are both really heavy. I use an alternative server called Matrix Conduit that’s more like an xmpp server in how light it is. Only problem then is that Conduit doesn’t have that many resources so it’s always a few steps back from Synapse or Dendrite.
- Comment on Is Web Environment Integrity a risk to the accessibility of the Internet? 1 year ago:
This would be bad, no doubt.
- Comment on Should we create a second activitypub 1 year ago:
That’s childish and petty.
You know that Facebook uses javascript? Do we stop using javascript? How about html? Do we shut that down? How about http? Do we shut that down? How about tcp/ip? How about the ascii character set?
The internet is based on Open standards. The idea that we would create a new standard just because someone we don’t like is using that standard is a non-starter.
The idea that we would then kick out the people who created the standard to begin with, who founded this ecosystem because they made a decision that we disagree with, you’re not looking for the internet, you’re looking for high school. Everyone can form their clique.