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Kind of missing the days of watching the family computer get screwed up by shareware games.

“But it said Virus Free!”

@Veticia @chopsstephens it’s really frustrating seeing so many people jump in with the snooty “never run large infrastructure, huh?” attitude when that is objectively the opposite of how we should be building instances. The whole point of federation is many small parts of a larger whole so there aren’t huge single points of failure. It’s ok if your instance goes down for a bit, it’ll get caught back up when it comes back online. I think self hosting on used hardware is perfectly fine (it’s what I’m doing), if you do regular backups offsite, because if you’re going to outgrow that hardware you’re probably staring down an issue of maintaining effective moderation anyway. Don’t grow so big that you need big installation methods.

@chopsstephens @Veticia The fundamental ideal behind federation is to break monolithic platforms into distributed pieces that form a resilient whole. Building fedi infrastructure like you’re bootstrapping the next Google is quite simply starting off on the wrong foot, full stop. It’s admirable that some people are willing to pay for 100% uptime but what does that actually get them? Twitter and Facebook care about uptime because they make money serving their users ads. How much are fedi users actually harmed if there’s downtime on their instance?

I think I’m going to spin up a new instance and migrate, is Sharkey still a good option? What do fedi folks use these days for mostly single user instances?

I have acquired a VNA. I am now unstoppable :blobcatscience:

@aisling@critters.gay I tried asking it about the new competition and it got dark quickly

@teajaygrey @whitequark@social.treehouse.systems babe wake up, new reaction image just dropped