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- Comment on What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy? 12 hours ago:
While theoretically true, the main bottleneck with Lemmy seems to be the database performance, so with both projects depending on PostgreSQL for that, I somewhat doubt that Piefed being written in Python will have much noticeable effect in reality.
- Comment on [help] Cheap SSDs for storage 1 day ago:
The base consumer models from regular brands usually have no write cache and are thus cheaper, and obviously slower, but for data storage that doesn’t matter so much.
But you can also look into 2.5" HDDs if you are looking for power savings and noise reduction over regular HDDs.
- Comment on Lemmyvision 2 song contest - Voting is now live! 1 day ago:
The last one in the list.
- Comment on Lemmyvision 2 song contest - Voting is now live! 1 day ago:
The vote is missing one song.
- Comment on Risks of self-hosting a public-facing forum? 2 days ago:
Well, obviously if you host from your home ISP, people will be able to figure out your home’s approximate location via a reverse IP search.
But otherwise go for it. It’s not that hard to do and a nice learning experience.
- Comment on Since militaries are authoritarian, even in democratic countries; What would a military of a stateless/anarchist society look like? 3 days ago:
The militias in Rojava (northern Syria) are kinda working that way. There are no real ranks and they were quite effective fighting ISIL and Turkish proxy forces in recent years.
- Comment on The fediverse has a bullying problem 5 days ago:
This guy also being a perpetrator of bullying because they didn’t like moderation decisions makes this post a bit ironic though 🤷
- Comment on MAZANOKE: A self-hosted local image compressor that runs in your browser 1 week ago:
Something like that could be also interesting for a Lemmy frontend to make it easier to share images on instances that have strict upload limits.
- Comment on Is it possible to browse a lemmy community images from pixelfed? 1 week ago:
This is a planned feature for Pixelfed that is perpetually finally almost finished since about two years now 😅
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 1 week ago:
Well, like I wrote below, it is basically about scaling Lemmy across multiple servers, with all the complexity that entails. I am probably not the best person to given advise on that though.
If our smaller instance ever gets to a size that is not feasible to run on a single server anymore, we will likely close registrations.
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 1 week ago:
Lets agree to disagree on the “natural” centralisation aspect, which is IMHO nonsense. And very recently the US empire was beaten by some tribes in Afghanistan, so I think your argument needs some further thinking 😏
The reason it gets so much more expensive after a few thousand users is complexity. Up to that point a single server can be used and the necessary sysadmin skills are not very high. Basically anyone with a few weeks of training can rent a server and run such an instance.
After a few thousand users it gets steeply more complex, when you need to think about running a database cluster and load-balance the frontends etc. Not very many people have the necessary skillset for that, and even less are volunteering to do this. So you end up being forced to hire someone expensive with a high in demand skill. Basically you operation suddenly jumps from a easy to fund with donations volunteer effort, to a must commercialize or otherwise fund venture that is highly unsustainable in the short term.
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 1 week ago:
As someone who run a Lemmy server I can tell you that it isn’t as simple as that.
Yes, there is an initial benefit from having more users on an instance, but this initial scaling benefit isn’t linear. It rather abruptly stops at a few thousand users and after that it becomes much harder and more expensive to scale further. Only after going over that hump it might become cheaper again at the scale of hundred thousand of users or so, but Lemmy the software is currently also unlikely to scale as a single instance to such numbers, so it isn’t just a system operator question.
So no, unless you wsnt to fully commercialize the Fediverse and bring in external investors to fund the getting over that initial bumb, semi-centralisation is not a feasible way forward. And what would even be the point of that? Reddit exists and is basically the same.
Luckily ActivityPub is designed to scale horizontially through lots of smaller (but not tiny) instances, so I think we can manage without the above.
- Comment on I reckon this is the usage distribution of Lemmy servers that we'll end up with. 1 week ago:
This is a terrible distribution and the semi-centralisation and gatekeeping by the established actors is one of the reason email is dying.
I think we can do much better than that 👍
- Comment on Sanity check: am I crazy for wanting to wipe everything and do/learn from scratch? 1 week ago:
Wait for the next hardware upgrade and then set up a new system while keeing the old system running in parallel.
- Comment on Pixelfed fundraised $134,139 for development 2 weeks ago:
This goes to the main developer, which is a person in Canada. But I think they have a few collaborators that will likely get on board more now that they want to set up a foundation to manage the Pixelfed codebase and IP.
- Comment on Remember the good old days? 2 weeks ago:
Most of human history…hmm checks notes… since the invention of capitalism about 400 years ago, yes.
Even serfs under feudal lords had significantly more free time and while basic child labor was common, it was mostly in family run farms.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 2 weeks ago:
Movim does, for Libervia and Dino I am not 100% sure right now, but at least for Libervia the browser version should have it as it is really more of a general Webrtc browser feature than client specific.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 2 weeks ago:
Maybe it was based on the “lifetime” of their hamster 🤷
- Comment on I believe that the "Nicole" images being sent to Threadiverse users may be intending to deanonymize accounts 2 weeks ago:
join-lemmy.org/docs/…/configuration.html
You need to set it to proxy all images.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 2 weeks ago:
The currently common older implementation of e2ee in xmpp has the same issue with only the message body being encrypted. There are newer specs of OMEMO that have better metadata protection, but its adoption in xmpp clients has very been slow.
Prosody is more of a sandbox, with Snikket being a preconfigured version of it, but yes running Slidge will be a bit easier with a normal Prosody server.
- Comment on I believe that the "Nicole" images being sent to Threadiverse users may be intending to deanonymize accounts 2 weeks ago:
Then you have not enabled to full image proxy. Here on our instance all the Nicole images where proxied to protect the privacy of our members.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 2 weeks ago:
Today xmpp uses a distant relative of those original jingle specifications, which have been modernized to use Webrtc.
- Comment on I believe that the "Nicole" images being sent to Threadiverse users may be intending to deanonymize accounts 2 weeks ago:
Lemmy does have a functional image proxy, but due to the storage and bandwidth requirements many larger instances have chosen to not enable it.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 2 weeks ago:
Jitsi-meet is already using xmpp under the hood.
But there are some efforts to add multi-user video calls to full xmpp clients as well. Dino can already do it for a while, and Movim and Libervia recently added experimental support.
Its not quite a full Discord replacement, but for private groups it works quite well.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 2 weeks ago:
Why would you down-grade from Snikket to Matrix?
If you want to skill up a bit add a Slidge.im gateway to your Snikket xmpp server to access Matrix (and Discord etc.) from there.
- Comment on Discord going public. Plz help a future refugee. 2 weeks ago:
Jitsi-meet does that. Easy to install as well.
- Comment on British Company Develops Solar-Harvesting Film Instead of Panels - Core77 3 weeks ago:
These afaik have a rather short life-time, so even if they are cheaper and easy to install, they might not give you a good return of investment and the waste produced could also be significant. But maybe there is somewhere an article with more details?
- Comment on Demo of European Mastodon hosting 3 weeks ago:
The Mastodon software seems to be in a kind of anti-sweetspot for this kind of hosting service. It kinda sucks that other better options have so much less name recognition that marketing becomes hard.
- Comment on Sharing my (real) first selfhosted project: OVH IP updater 3 weeks ago:
Cool. I it’s actually still on my long to do list to try this. Thanks for the update!
- Comment on Question about quadlets and kube play 4 weeks ago:
I use one pod per app more or less. The reverse-proxy conf depends a bit on the specific app so that depends, but it will probably work for most by sharing a network and exposing the ports in the pods