SFaulken

SFaulken, 11 months ago

For my part, I've only participated in the whole reddit thing under protest. I'm involved in some open source projects, and I felt it necessary to get involved there, just to fight the FUD.

I never liked it. Even before this whole API hullabaloo.

I've got my popcorn, and I'll be happy to watch reddit die in a fire. (One can only hope.)

SFaulken, 11 months ago

The performance issues will sort themselves out. The timing is just bad for kbin.social

But it's not a performance issue, so much as it is people learning how the Fediverse works. At it's best, there shouldn't be any megaservers where everybody is signed up. There should be many smaller servers, that are interacting with each other, via federation. It's a little different way of looking at things.

SFaulken, 11 months ago

I've got no issue kicking Ernest a fiver (and in fact I did), but part of the issue is, we shouldn't be advocating for kbin.social or any of their other instances becoming the "Big Kahuna" That defeats half the purpose of being a federated protocol in the first place. Get a VPS of your own, spin up an instance, invite your friends and family, and spread the load. If you poke around, you can get a suitable VPS that can support a small number of users quite inexpensively.

I don't have mine up and running yet, but it's in the works, as soon as I muddle through how.