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fork run by non-idealogues when
fork run by non-idealogues when
be the change you want to see in the world
The feeling of ownership, of oh I can go host an instance at home and knowing that you aren’t at the whim of corporate admins or a company’s poor fortune, is so incredibly cool. I really hope more decentralized/selfhostable alternatives to major services start to take off.
You’re reducing load on the bigger instances by not using them directly, which is giving something back
The high number of users on .world is because it still has open registration
I wonder if accounts on certain servers will be “prestigious” one day lol
^ Lenovo tiny thinkcenters are the best thing ever. Heck, I use the older haswell-era M73s that you can get for $30-40 on ebay and they’re amazing. Only drawback is no m.2 and no PCIe expandability but if you’re on a budget and want a starter homelab you can literally cluster 3 of these things for ~$100
There’s a large overlap between people who are sympathetic to terrible dictators and people who would be happy to be dictators
The idea that anything that doesn’t reach Twitter scale is a failure is annoying as hell
Can’t expect the millions of people who don’t even understand what an API is to care about the API changes. Hell, I didn’t use a 3rd party app or really care about the API changes but I’ve wanted to get into the fediverse and disliked reddit for a long time, so it’s as good an excuse as anything.
wow what a centrist username I truly believe this comment
Yeah, it’s bad. I’ll probably be looking into hosting my own kbin instance on principle soon.