unfortunately yes the blackout will eventually pass ... right now i think the only question is at what cost to reddit?
curious what the zeitgeist would be if the vc or fidelity made soez step down, which replaces him and to what net effect?
seeing his credibility is completely shot publicly, is this at all worthy of putting on the table?
Catharsis. think that's all it is and will die down in due time.
shower thoughts... and still on my first cup of coffee to more just musing than anything ...
if storage is the concern wonder if the lemmy roadmap might one day include an option to use cloud based storage?
azure storage at .06/gb per month is likely cheaper and more redundant than local storage - even if you factor in calls to the blob which could be lowered via caching.
cloud storage potentially might one day lead to a option for smaller self hosters to opt into a shared blob instance where the and cost is shared.
in this scenario security to ensure the cloud blob couldn't be deleted would need to be thought through (maybe splitting the password among multiple admins with each having one part of the whole?) but might be one way to better encourage more self hosting for them compute side of things.
think the difference is community vs attention (or lack there of). while i personally am not currently looking for the latter, don't think i appreciated how much i enjoy the former until this whole spez driven melt down happened.
am sure things will evolve as they're meant to, in the meantime just happy to be here.
the other thing to consider with low effort, duplication of memes is the server overhead. one thing to burn corporate coffers with the same people of walmart and cat tropes but this kind of stuff burns server and storage resources.
for a corporate entity looking to make billions off our data that's the cost of doing business -- but for lemmy server admins it's a truly personal cost.
imo we should be respectful of our "homes" and try not to trash them with low value content.
agree about the differences between here and the alien. there's civility and discourse here - a good amount of fun - a sense of newness yet familiar. ive engaged more here than i have in 4 years on reddit - thanks all to a great community and gracious hosts running these servers ❤️
you're right - really well spelled out in a way even a non techie can understand. should be pinned to every sub that goes live again tomorrow
just finishing The Indifferent Stars Above about the Donner party - really great. these folks were built of different stock than we are.
imo if we had more here the servers couldn't scale and it'd be a black eye.
last thing we all want is chatter that it'sa crappy technology not ready for prime time. we know the reality isn't the tech lagging but rather enough tech knowledge and appetite to host more instances.
thinking slower sustained growth would probably be better for the health of f-verse(?)
great idea-i've been toying with the idea of buying a 3d printer but struggling to justify it. more things like this might change that.
after all the rain we had socal is riddled with mosquitoes that don't seem to mind the weather. watching this thread to see if someone's got something to help us