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

“we only jerk each other off on union hours!”

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

100 million year button rubs me the right way for the same reason, though every time I see Cain I go “Why not go train for 100 years?”

Wish more translated volumes would come out.

I mean, I’m aware that you could say the same about many LNs, but I really like this series in particular. Also, the book is a hell mode of reading, often being like 450 pages.

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’m cheap.

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

I think compared to most governments on the planet, the US Federal government was supposed to be a tiny one. That’s why it’s not supposed to be allowed to do virtually anything it does today.

The workarounds to grow the federal government are kinda like you’re stuck on a desert island and all you have is coconuts, so you build your house out of coconuts, you build your car with coconuts, you build a wife with coconuts, you build your kids with coconuts, a whole society built out of coconuts. It’s like "This is impressive, but what the hell made you think this was the intent of the assignment?

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.

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.

Probably something going wrong with their back-end.

The pressure on instances has been pretty high since the reddit migration, a lot of things could’ve broken along the way. I know I had to totally dump my database and rebuild my instance a little while in because something went catastrophically wrong during a software upgrade. (Backups? Where we’re going we very much need backups but we won’t have them because the instance was like a week old lol)

It’s sad to think about how much stuff that still has life but ends up in a state like that.

I don’t know exactly what this is, but if it’s what I think it is, I think I want one.

Facts!

I’ve had some real asshole managers in the past and I started saying “if you’re gonna be a fascist the trains better well fucking run on time!” And you know, those asshole managers were real jerks, but they never seemed to deliver either…

I got it backwards. Apparently Ireland is the independent one, northern Ireland is part of the UK. How embarrassing for me.

Also, it’s the berenstain bears not berenstien.

Before I check, let’s see if I’m right…

England…wales…Ireland…Scotland…and I don’t think northern Ireland is considered part of the UK since it’s independent. Gonna look it up now.

I get sometimes folks are just being edgelords(hail Satan amirite?), but anyone looking at the cringefest of national socialism as anything but the most retarded ideology to come out of the human race needs to read more from non-austrian authors. :P

I’m thinking they might not wish they were related to Adolf, but might have some similar ideas about what to do to their parents for giving them such a damned name.