if only it was so simple. AB managed to piss everyone off.

ipv6 and reverse proxied. yes.

expected, but not a sustainable growth, there is a finite number of conversions here.

it already has been abused, you came here a bit late and missed the fireworks, there was a massive expulsion of badly behaving instances by many of the instances wanting to remain connected. I was actually quite surprised and impressed at the speed at which admins collectively decided and acted across the network. I actually suspect the ratio of mods:users to be higher here. The ratio of admins:users def is.

haha no, instances like this pre-date centralized systems, e-cash and everything else. instead of something hip and new, you are doing something very old, like they way the internet was designed to operate old.

i was running sites like these a decade before reddit came to the fore. The thing that’s “new and weird” is this desire to pile onto a single domain handing control of your feed, personal information and more to a billionaire. If you are into wealth gospel i get it, though they haven’t done as much to earn trust as people seem to think.

AOL and Compuserve went under for all the same reasons the majors are struggling now.

wish it would just default to my default rather than forcing selection, seems to vary by instance too.

doh, forgot to set the language!

that all depends on the instance. small does not mean it will go away. for example my instance is topical. by design, even if it gets “popular” it has some in-built upper limits and if the mass grows beyond them it means I can likely get help paying for the next steps up.

just because an instance is big does not mean its necessarily safe or stable, first its imporant to note that large instances have scaling issues as the deployment for the system is not ready to scale that way, instead they need to deploy to every bigger servers in an inefficient manner or spend a ton of time rolling bespoke deploys. these big servers are just a few volunteers. some big instances are managed by 1-4 technical people, the same numbers a small instance has.

Also it costs money to run large scaled systems, you can run an instance for you and some friends for nearly free if you find a deal and only a few bucks a month if you dont.

So big instance/ small instance does not mean much with stability, they both have thier issues. Something to note, smaller instances are MUCH easier to run.

smaller instances give you more control over your feed generally but discovery is on you.

i do expect better filters and controls in the future

pretty sure federation protocol is looking for <NAME>:<PORT>

i haven’t seen instances use a sub-directory

bring it

yes you can use the same domain, but you may need different subdomains for everything to work happily.

0.18.2 bug, its going around

Do you feel you are being paid fair value for your work?

If not ask for a raise or look for a new job. Note that for the last 20 years in the US it has been shown to be easier to get a raise by changing jobs than asking for one.

https://lemmy.intai.tech/post/87559?scrollToComments=true

it needs to be easier to get the home instance post link.

one of us

do you want a cult? this is how you get a cult!

4d move. She is always on top because she’s the leader that changed the game.

Never have. Never will.

facts

seconded for hashicorp, you can do secrets and env vars while cutting your teeth but you should be on a path to learning and setting up secure secrets vaults.

don’t touch it till you need/want to. I had a system I wanted to expose to the internet on a vlan buried in my network, so ipv6 looked like the quicker of the 2 options. turned out to be right.

you have to edit, wait for the edit to propagate and then delete

thread is still here https://lemmy.intai.tech/comment/352120

worrying my head off about security because in the old days IPv6 had some issues esp with bascially putting every device on your network on the public internet with no firewall.

learned that years ago hardware makers started defaulting to blocking all traffic from the outside when ipv6 is enabled. Once I felt comfortable just turning it on I found it pretty easy to grasp esp when the addresses stopped liking like random junk to my eyes.

Once I knew how things worked actually exposing a specific system or port set to the internet was super easy, much easier than NAT + firewall.

with my ISP. v6 unexpectedly brought a new level of privacy we had not had before. When you geolocate the IPs they show up in ISP datacenters all over the country. One day it looks like we are in VA, the next we are coming out of Seattle. We have yet to notice any speed or routing issues. IPv4 and IPv6 play well together though once you turn on v6 you might find yourself turning it on for more vlans than you planned because you want the features!

onlyfans is an app, a quick search showed a couple others, dating apps mainly, likely a couple social services that don’t mention dating or sex that are actually used for that. Just have to find them.

It’s always those details. I want the gpu so I can do transcoding of new files. Is you don’t need a gpu go for the 100

this is the usecase i want a personal unit for. I have a Pi4 which I use mostly for Ci/CD and maint but sometimes there is just no way to easily get something to run on ARM and I’m firing up a 800watt PC or a 160watt laptop again.

IMO either of the Intel options we are discussing here will work well for you.

Just local, streams 4k fairly OK but will studder sometimes, not enough to be a problem in general but if you want a perfect image full time you might be disappointed.

Its primarily a media player and runs 8 and 16 bit emulators. Haven’t tried anything more ambitious yet. It streams content from my NAS just fine. I don’t think multiple users would work on it for video streaming however others uses maybe.

Have a J4125 driving an entertainment center fairly competently, was eyeing a N5105 as a personal device.

yes, ill admit i didnt do it myself until recently when I didnt want to do yet-another-nat-entry and decided to join modern networking.

should have done it years ago.

then we need to be uninstalling reddit and installing porn social apps immediately after. enough people do it and…

Yes

first day my instance was all over the map syncing, there are a few general mismatch bugs, a couple are caching. The big one is posts on one instance not propagating to all other instances, in particularly the home instance where the thread started.

maybe, communities and forums worked great for decades before hashtags became common. Some might say its a cope for cheap and poorly developed search algos soon to be replaced by much more sophisticated systems.

for hashtags id say its just not popular, they have fallen out of favor in a lot of groups on twitter as well, for example if you want to know about AI research, not a single AI researcher worth anything is posting with hashtags. You have to find and follow them.

Mastodon being even more indie is just reflecting this growing preference. Hashtags are tools of marketers thanks to twitter and fb, they won’t go away but thier cringe factor in casual social posts is likely to stick around for a bit.

ive noticed hashtags are not very popular likely due to them being overdone.

like lemmy, your mastadon exp is highly dependent upon your instance.

I’ve modded and ran communities on and off since the 90s. I do it because I enjoy giving back in my own way and creating a place people enjoy to be. Really is altruistic, I started because a forum i was on the owner no longer had the time and the other option was for the site to go down, never really looked back. Being in the industry, running another server and checking in on posts in a topic I am interested in is usually a light extra load.

I operate in highly topical spaces so moderation is easier and setup correctly it just takes care of itself mostly. I do not envy the people who take on the task of trying to moderate general open post areas. OffTopic and Gen Discussion are always the biggest sources of forum drama.

i tried and failed

Look at the unknown line, looks like the tool used to create this graph mistook one of the windows versions for an “unknown”. Likely the result of a cumulative update.

Based on the graph i expect they process data monthly, fixed the issue for june but have not gone back and fixed the data points for apr and may.

trying to do simple things seemed like a fight, working examples I found hard to come by.

Nginx “just worked”

the most confusing thing was figuring out scriptable processing (and the lua vs JS back and forth, go with njs) however there are entire repos of common examples and solutions which made it much more manageable.

i put this down to maturity and age, older projects just often have more docs, and thier code bases have been molded to fit more cases (esp the strange ones) better.

When it comes to cloudflare, Im not sure you have much of a choice, I ran across errata RE: Caddy a fair bit when setting up my latest proxy through them.