i think leary put it best.. he wasnt talking of the meaning of life, but i think he is;
Happiness comes in small doses folks. It's a cigarette butt, or a chocolate chip cookie or a five second orgasm. You come, you smoke the butt you eat the cookie you go to sleep wake up and go back to fucking work the next morning, THAT'S IT! End of fucking list! - Denis Leary [No Cure For Cancer]
reddit is having a conversation is some dudes house. lots of rooms. his house.
lemmy is having a conversation in a large public space where anyone could be listening in. your words are no more retractable than the sound of your voice over an open field or street corner.
the fediverse is an incredibly public place, so im always curious how thats spose to gel with very privacy-conscious users.
the most productive discussions we can have are how to initiate and support user migration off of reddit. helping people rebuild communities. anything else is just mashin it
It's passed on! This website is no more! It has ceased
to be! It's expired and gone to meet Its maker! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in
peace! It's off the twig! It's kicked the bucket, It's
shuffled off its mortal coil, run down the curtain and joined the bleedin' choir
invisible!! THIS IS AN EX-link aggregator with threaded discussion!
traffic volume is already a serious consideration, but theroetically its what you request. its not like an instance comes up and suddenly needs to interact with 500 other servers.
if you on your personal instance decide you need to subscribe to thousands of communities on thousands of servers... isnt that kinda on you? i mean.. how could you personally ever expect to consume that volume?
if youre on a community instance and the instance itself is drawing a metric fuckton of traffic.. scale up. the good platforms will scale.
that said, ive kinda tried to sub to every server i can find just for giggles... it 'pre-loads' the content on my instant for new users in the 'newest' queues.
there are mitigations you can put in place for rate-limiting other servers also.. your server would just fall farther and farther behind
personally, i think it scales better than other options. bluesky doesnt scale at all
im comin back through customs in the bahamas to get on plane the the unites states. i am drunk and stoned out of my gord because we decided to 'get rid of everything' before we headed for home..
so i get in line and the armed customs officer looks my drunk ass up and down, pats me down.. lifts up my shirt and sticks his finger in the little 5th pocket of my jeans..... and pulls out a tiny baggie. you know, the little mini ziplock baggies.
i just about shit my freakin pants right there wracking my brain for what the fuck i bought that would be in that baggie.
computer screws... specifically a set of screws for a hard drive install. you got me officer, is nerd.
i think leary put it best.. he wasnt talking of the meaning of life, but i think he is;