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

Je ne pas parle englais

Ahem.

Nextcloud Notes has become my go-to (Oh look, SJ is advocating for Nextcloud again! How original!)

You’re not wrong, but my point is that we’re dealing with laws of math here. You can’t just go “Just accept less profit” when the majority don’t make enough profit to survive. That money has to come from somewhere.

My mom ran a couple restaurants at different times in her life. She’s a high school drop-out who has never had a great job so it isn’t like she’s some high class capitalist. Both restaurants failed within a year or two, and she came out each time quite a bit worse than she went in. The company in charge of the building locked the doors and kept all her stuff in lieu of rent. It’s pretty brutal. She lost all the money she put into it well beyond any money she might have made on the business itself, and she went into debt each time as a result of the failing business as well.

Friendica is interesting because it’s fundamentally different than a lot of the others. It supports ActivityPub, but also other protocols. The view is fundamentally threaded. It supports groups so some parts of the threadiverse can federate with it in that regard and presumably it could too. It also supports RSS, so you can get content from outside the fediverse.

I liked it, especially with a custom skin I set up. My big problem was that it has a php back-end and I needed something way lighter for my tiny at the time server, so I went with pleroma.

I know it sounds really easy to get all huffy and self-righteous, but 60% of restaurants do not make it past the first year, and 80% go under in five years.

It’s hard out there. If the place isn’t making money, everyone loses their job.

That’s where we eventually started getting feezer pizzas instead of take-out. Compared to the pain in the ass of ordering food (assuming the place is even open), it was easier just to throw one in the oven, and way cheaper too.

I’m cheap.

So far, Conduit is the only answer for me, since I don’t own any quantum supercomputers.

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.

What the hail?

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.

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.

It’s like that time I only had two drinks – a bottle of wine and a bottle of vodka. (oh my god I died for the next two days don’t do what I did)

Can’t get mad at me for having only two drinks!

I think der fuhrer Trudeau would be happy to have one less PPC voter as well.

Site’s been in a bad way unfortunately. I think there are bad actors or something, everything is getting hit fairly hard on my end. Might have to re enable mod_evasive at this point

My home made wines had the same thing happen. The older they got, the better they got. I think that over time some of the brutal tastes and chemicals break down and you’re left with a smoother drink.

I did some math, and if we want to keep having the quality of life we have and we want to go with “green technologies” and stop using fossil fuels, we can’t have as many people on the planet. Simple as.

If people care so deeply that they want to “STOP OIL NOW” then a lot of people all around the world will have to die, and a lot of the poorest nations will be hit hardest, and we shouldn’t be importing people from low energy use jurisdictions to high energy use jurisdictions.

Basically, going fully green isn’t of any benefit to the progressive project.

The mass hatred for this move blows my mind. Especially from people who swear up and down that they’ve already left twitter.