Reddit and Twitter are multimillion dollar enterprises
I’m just some fool who rents a little virtual server so I can help people use the fediverse
I mean I’m not even an IT guy by trade (just by hobby) - I’m a truck driver.
It’s a good thing it’s a virtual server. I can’t imagine the issues you would have if you hosted it from the back of your truck.
Hosting from the back of a truck would be a technological marvel in its own right.
that’s about unrelated as I can think
awesome, I love technology accessibility
You’re in the wrong field, my man. I sit at a chair 60 hours a week staring into a empty void that is my monitor. Wait, maybe we are not really that different after all.
I am an it guy and mine still goes down… Lol. Your doing great to get an instance going! That setup isn’t exactly non tech friendly.
Mine went down yesterday because my backup job for my docker vols filled up my entire vps.
I was starting to run into that until I moved pict-rs to object storage a few days back.
I gzip the backups, keep one local, upload the rest to Backblaze. The local one gets deleted before the next backup starts.
one of these is making a profit off of you, the other is a community tended commons. there is no comparison.
Reddit was all a community tended commons that was making a profit off of people
It isn’t double standards, it’s patience for a fledgling replacement platform that seeks to free you from being a commodity to be exploited and sold, and lack of patience for the established, exclusively profit hungry platforms that continue to make your experience worse and disrespect you, solely to squeeze a few extra pennies out of you to meet insatiable, unquenchable growth/metastasis expectations.
It’s the difference between yelling at a professional pickpocket trying to rob you and a kid who is screwing up trying to help you. Resources matter, but more importantly, motivations matter.
A big part of the fediverse is that it’s decentralized, one server going down doesn’t mean you can’t see anything, the rest of the network still exists and there are still people using that.
It makes sense! Lemmy servers are new and still gaining stability. You’re also not paying (not even with your data) so you can be more forgiving
