Why is their a hammer in the fridge?

Probably the same way a hybrid gas-electric car is more fuel efficient. In a hybrid, the battery revs up and down with need while the engine just powers the battery at a steady clip. Since the engine can run constantly at a fix optimum speed, it is more fuel efficient.

Likewise, I figure, each server has a certain amount of bandwidth. If everyone is on one server, all the posts and comments come at random intervals with spikes and troughs. Either the bandwidth gets throttled, which causes lag, or all the comments go through at the same time, which uses a lot of bandwidth. With multiple servers, those posts get federated and (probably, I’m guessing at this point) wait for the federated server to signal that they are no longer busy, which flattens the bandwidth demand.

It wasn’t any of the admins. Someone just got a hold of a real world JWT token of one of the admins and XSSed all over the Meta’s sidebar at the meeting.

I was going to say I don’t use Linux, but I just noticed I have a Linux partition on my window 10 machine - and I have no idea how it got there.

Put porn behind a technological barrier. Instant generation of tech experts.

Didn’t Mastodon completely revamp their app on the same day Musk blocked everyone from Twitter? Have you tried it out since the first?

Hey, the furries have mostly migrated to lemmy!