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- Comment on Looking for a VPS. I don't know who to choose. 15 hours ago:
The opposite of self-hosted would be managed service.
You run it yourself at your own location however you want it
Vs
Someone runs it for you at their location. However the want it
VPS is someone loans you a VM at their location that you run yourself however you want to.
It’s still relevant to self-hosted because you still have to do all the work, you were just using their network, power, air conditioning, hardware and fire suppression. You’re still in the hook for installs and patches, configuration, and software issues.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip Server Update 19 hours ago:
Yeah there are times when having the off is advantageous, and times when they’re fine. I was on world initially and when the defed’d them it was during a s’storm. The outcome was ok at the time, but when I finally left .world for .zip. I found some of the more earnest content from them useful. Great solution to leave it in the hands of the user.
- Comment on That explains a lot 3 days ago:
That’s fair, and my old house I didn’t mind having clover all over my yard, some people just want straight grass though, then they want to cut cross hatches in it. Everybody’s got to have a hobby and grass cutting is less annoying the older you get.
- Comment on That explains a lot 3 days ago:
It’s not that hard, all you needs a little Scots turf builder black hole edition.
- Comment on Sun God 3 days ago:
Yep, zoom and narrow aperture really messes with perspective.
It’s kind of opposite of the tilt shift photos that make real life things look fake.
- Comment on Sun God 3 days ago:
- Comment on Sun God 3 days ago:
From that picture, it looks like you’d be on mercury and look up, see nothing but sun, But realistically it’s 60% closer than earth
looks kinda like this from the surface
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 4 days ago:
I so love me some VLDL. thanks for the share.
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 4 days ago:
You have a schedule And it’s a pipeline
When design calls for a change, you need art and dev to do more.
If CI takes forever and devs are fighting for perf, everyone gets backed up.
You can see in the releases, gameplay often takes a backseat to pretty.
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 4 days ago:
We don’t. But I am in the games industry and I can make some pretty solid guesses.
There’s a hell of a lot of titles coming out with years and years of development time. They’re having to port the engine two or more times during that development cycle only to come out to moderately shitty reviews
They’re killing themselves on 4K, high refresh rate, dynamically lit games like the beauty of a game is going to make up for it being shallow and boring.
I hope it comes out and knocks it out of the park. But if it doesn’t knock it out of the park, I hope they didn’t spend another couple of years trying to make it look pretty only to end up as being yet another mixed review release.
- Comment on The Senate Passed The TAKE IT DOWN Act, Threatening Free Expression and Due Process 4 days ago:
My own summary
The bills stated purpose: The bill is meant to speed up the removal of non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII, including videos that imitate real people, a technology sometimes called “deepfakes.”
The bill suffers from overly broad definitions and contains no protections from griefing. (Like YouTube takedowns from people that don’t own content)
The bill has been passed by the Senate but can be stopped by the house
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 4 days ago:
I don’t know, maybe we should stop trying to exactly recreate real life in every game and spend 9/10 of that polish time one gameplay and fun…
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 5 days ago:
You make laws like the Online Safety Act in the UK. You then attach a multi-million dollar fine to anyone who doesn’t adhere to the bonkers unenforceable stipulations in the text.
All of a sudden, no one but a corporation with a legal department can safely run an instance without putting their money and eventually freedom on the line.
They might not be able to just stop it, but you can force us into a pirate scenario where we have to do it in the dark.
We are likely starting to slowly head into 1984 territory. IF Fascim continues to rise, eventually, non-state-run media will be deemed unlawful and they’ll do what they can to make it go away.
- Comment on Anyone remember this? 5 days ago:
I remember walking into the college library in late 94, seeing all the real computer geeks standing around one of the newer 486s, they were installing Navigator Beta 1.1.
We had been using FTP, Gopher and Telnet for a while, but this was the first time that any of us had actually used a web browser.
Of course, there was no search yet, so while sites did exist, it took them a little time to dig through enough IRC and Usenet to find things to visit.
- Comment on Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through? 6 days ago:
We are an oligarchy now. You can’t just change out the head of the organization and fix that. The vast majority of Congress is owned by corporate greed.
The only change that’s going to work is going to be big ugly nasty change.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
Yeah, you can get away with really cheap operations up until you start blowing through your cdn and communication budget
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
The way lemmy (and federation) works, it needs to do a bunch of operations that can’t happen simultaneously, so there’s a job queue. The queue needs to do some database operations and a bunch of communication operations and each of the jobs needs to reach out to distant servers that may or may not be overwhelmed themselves.
You start with one server it costs almost nothing to host. Sooner or later you want to split out the job servers, then you end up needing to split out the database, when you start getting that many people on your server now you want to consider fault tolerance, Even after tuning you can only fit so many simultaneous users on a web server, you end up needing to do some load balancing. The next step would be trying to split it up geography-wise.
That’s scaling up and it’s what big companies do and it’s very expensive but easy for a small team to manage.
Lemmy on the other hand is designed to be scaled out, running smaller individual user bases on lighter hardware with a bunch of individual administrators instead of a organized team.
If people want to be on a large single cluster application Reddit is still there.
I like what we have a lot better.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
They are, probably even too quiet. But the level of griefers, bots and trolls is very very low, and selfishly, I REALLY like that.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
which are already doing all the work and should definitely be compensated somehow.
That’s why I donate monthly to my instance :)
A pretty decent sized instance managed will uses a few boxes and some CDN, runs a couple to a few hundred a month, it doesn’t take that many people paying to cover it.
It’s not as bad managing the smaller instances. The app works like it says on the tin until you get really big.
IMO lemmy.world let themselves get WAY bigger than they should have. They had to start doing a hell of a lot more work to keep the thing up.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
a while ago where yall saying shit like this became the “normies”
Ohh it’s normal for us. But there are still a lot of sports all-consuming, rabble rousing, linux hating, clue collar people still on Reddit, any I don’t mind them staying over there.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
I’m really not happy about bluesky their fragmentation of the fediverse protocols
shrug, I wish they were with us, but they are also a big ole corporate entity, so I’m kind ok with us staying our our side of the fence. As they need to implement payment and corporate protections to their network, we’re free to be free over here.
is only going to harm us in the long run.
We don’t have to play ball. not with them anyway,
I think, If we have any credible threat, it’s going to be from the Governmental gross anti-tampering laws, forced moderation, or backup regulations. They could make it legally difficulty for us to exist.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
Do you really think Lemmy could handle the amount of people that Reddit has?
yup. no question. Not one instance mind you, but Reddit is also a giant cluster. (and clusterfuck)
As far as I know the existing instances are usually running on capacity and always in need of donations,
We just need the big bois to stop stuffing themselves. There’s 0 reason to have 2/3 of the totally traffic flooding into world because people are scared of Federation that they never even have to deal with.
Maybe Lemmy would benefit of some way to get people to pay, such as purchasing the ability to give people awards etc.
Maybe we make some premium pay servers with baller architecture, killer response time, user capacity limits and high speed storage?
But the point is that without a business model, the Fediverse will only be able to handle a limited number of enthusiasts before it faces scaling problems.
Eventually, it’s going to be ads, donations or payments. It’s all someone else’s computer, someone has to foot the bill. But at great scale, you should be able to have an ad-free experience for something in the range a dollar or two a month.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
How can anyone not love the guy?
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
YES! #winning
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
It’s fun for now until the state gets a hold of it. They’ll be over here sooner or later, just let them trickle in and get everyone used to it.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 6 days ago:
It’s good to have some friends, but don’t let too many normies in…
- Comment on Jellyfin is not just good... but *better* than Plex now?! 6 days ago:
Tailscale has a generous free account and runs on windows, mac, IOS, android, apple TV, firestick, and shield. You just set it up on your media server and every client, and just use to 100. address for your server in each client.
If you need Roku,LG,Samsung, it’s no longer fun. The tailnet can be forwarded from a routed device on the network, but that’s deep in the weeds for random people.
You could install HAProxy and run let’s encrypt, forwarding your JF to an external port (ISPs usually block 443, but it’s not hard to tell the client what port you need. Then your users can just specify your home IP and a specific port.
Or you could forgo the SSL and just open JF up on a high port. Maybe fail2ban on logins. it’s REALLY not ‘good’ at remote access :)
- Comment on Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads 6 days ago:
Then you might as well just host your own PeerTube instance
Your average person is not capable of setting up, hosting, backing up and maintaining a proper Peertube instance. A large part of my dayjob is in hosting and infra, and I have set up a PT instance before. Honestly, even as far as average hosting goes, their setup is kind of needy. Most dockers are like start, port, go these days. As soon as you mandate that they have DNS and a working 443 upfront, you’re kicking most people out before they start.
The standalone app you talk about probably doesn’t work in practice.
There is no challenge there that cannot be overcome by application architecture. I don’t see anything that is a deal braker, and there is definitely a need out there, but it’s a damn big project and the makers of PT aren’t just doing straight up charity.
What happens when the user shuts down their computer? Indexer loses heartbeat, content shows up as unavailable. Configurable by admin to disappear from searches after x time. Current watchers: If enough people were watching the stream currently/recently, they’d keep going from each other’s cache as peertube will actually peer. (I’ve tested the peer part, it does what’s on the tin) If no one has future segments, they’d get kicked out same as if the server went offline. Most content creators would be pretty careful not to do this. It would also be an interesting thing to explore the mirroring functionality and have small creators team up and mirror each others data, doing a kind of remote replica between friends thing.
What could work is a 2-in-1 solution, where a content creators video backup also functions as a peertube instance.
That’s actually kind of my point. It’s mostly Peertube, but without users trying to deal with nginx/apache, redis/postgres, port 80/443 ips issues, SMTP, DNS and SSL. Someone who is capable of dealing with those parts just stitches them on as remote content. The servers don’t pay for storage or most of the networking and they help the clients with visibility and getting around ISP limits.
If we try to setup end users with the whole shebang, they’re going to run into issues when the Redis goes RO from running out of space/memory, or when they have disk issues and the postgres goes tits up. (or god forbid PT needs a DB upgrade or something) They don’t know about services and recovery, they’re not capable of setting up backups or running restores.
Hell maybe the app is also the consumption part as well. You watch peertube by running the PT desktop app. Then we can deal with self signed certs. run people on sqlite and local shared host memory instead of redis. We’d still need remote trackers to help orchestrate the DHT.
I duuno, it’s big, it’s pain. I think if it were available, big tech (and honestly big brother) would be shitting themselves.
- Comment on Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through? 6 days ago:
America isn’t the only place with stupid people.
That wasn’t the statement that was made.
- Comment on Why Are People Surprised When Trump Actually Follows Through? 6 days ago:
Most of my dem circle knew what was coming.
My fam is still freaking out at the small shit. He hired this person, he fired that person while the more sweeping horrors are almost passing over them without notice.
I’m like Focus! Compartmentalize! I don’t care that they replaced the head of the FBI and fired all the generals, that was a given. Watch what he does with those seats. Watch what Russia does. We’re under new ownership and the call is NOT coming from inside the house.
