Skelectus

There was a thing about this from the finnish public broadcasting company a while ago. Their results were similar.

I think this is a known problem. I’ve seen it recommended a lot to moderate communities from the same instance.

I wish.

It was kind of a joke response.

If this encourages light, fast loading pages, I’m all for it.

Sonar is scary as hell.

This answer right here.

If you’d like to see a demonstration, watch this video on last gen iPhone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2WhU77ihw8

It goes a bit further than that. When the CPU is too old and slow you can just slap in a newer board without having to buy a full machine. Still can’t answer if it’s worth it for OP though.

Don’t have an answer, but I’d like to point out that federation doesn’t work with tor.

That logic would at least be pretty straightforward; mark the unknown parent as unknown.

I’m a bit late, sorry.

I disagree with that. A large defederation would make an impact, which I think would cause some loss of the growing portion of normal people here.

I guess for the final thoughts I’ll ask, how much do you trust Facebook/Meta here? I said this before, but I consider them a risk not worth taking.

I’m gonna try just a bit more.

Meta can’t buy the fediverse, like Google couldn’t buy XMPP. XMPP userbase was consumed regardless. My main point is that if allowed to grow into the largest or one of the largest instances, Meta has the ability to cause a lot of damage.

What can they do? They might add new features, such as custom reactions, or new types of post embeds, or something. Developers now have to choose between having broken posts, or trying to catch up Zuckerberg’s nonstandards, like if it were the browser wars.

When the average user sees broken posts or can’t follow their favourite people anymore because of defederation, they just have a reason to move to a better instance (Threads or some other instance that hasn’t defederated). Defederation works if done early. If it’s done too late, only the hardcore Meta haters will be left.

That’s the worst case. Given their track record, they will use an opportunity to backstab us. I don’t know what I will say if people just let Meta pull an EEE that everyone saw from a mile away. In any case, I consider Meta a massive risk for not much benefit (do we even want a wave of Meta users?).

You forgot the biggest concern that people have.

Remember that Meta’s strategy has always been to buy out or kill competitors before they grow too big. This time, when the competitor is immune to normal methods, they’re all so friendly and cooperative. Why the complete 180, did they suddenly turn good?

Please read this: https://ploum.net/2023-06-23-how-to-kill-decentralised-networks.html

Is your mind changed?

I’m in Europe. Been using Vultr, it’s good. Now looking at Hetzner for better prices and a server that’s actually in my country.

I’m sure they have their eyes peeled at a growing competitor, but is there anything weird or creepy about this?

For example it avoids dealing with consumer ISP, has separation from my home network and better uptime.

Any web service. I have lemmy and email on rented servers.