Broken analogy.

Coke is here saying that only people like Coke. Pepsi sitting around their thumb up their ass going I got nothin’

The vast majority of our government is currently not trying to stop this, even the people that are supposed to be in the other side are basically doing nothing.

You can’t belittle this by calling it the cola wars. I’m pretty sure we’re good and boned on both sides based on their actions.

I don’t think that’s deep enough. I think they’re on the same payroll as Trump’s team.

do you eat pancakes everyday?

Have you not seen us?

Seriously we probably eat way more breakfast confections than you would expect. That’s the vast majority of us are not making them scratch theyr getting them out of a box

The main thing at play right now is that the political stance of our right-wing fascist dictators was that grocery prices would come down and egg prices were artificially high with the last guy.

It was campaign after campaign on eggs being so expensive for no reason.

Their base was so big on why did Biden let eggs get so expensive It was honestly annoying as f. Now that their guy is in they’re breaking open the textbooks and explaining to us that it’s bird flu and a lot of the birds are dying and eggs are more expensive

The problem is, the last time this happened there was a great shortage of eggs. You could hardly find them the prices were high.

Now every store you go into is running over with eggs and the prices are twice as high as they were back then.

Ensure, sorry for the annoyance eggs being a dollar a piece is not the end of the world for us by far but it’s an indicator that something is going wrong. And it’s a nice distraction from all the Nazi salutes on our mainstream news

You make laws like the Online Safety Act in the UK. You then attach a multi-million dollar fine to anyone who doesn’t adhere to the bonkers unenforceable stipulations in the text.

All of a sudden, no one but a corporation with a legal department can safely run an instance without putting their money and eventually freedom on the line.

They might not be able to just stop it, but you can force us into a pirate scenario where we have to do it in the dark.

We are likely starting to slowly head into 1984 territory. IF Fascim continues to rise, eventually, non-state-run media will be deemed unlawful and they’ll do what they can to make it go away.

The way lemmy (and federation) works, it needs to do a bunch of operations that can’t happen simultaneously, so there’s a job queue. The queue needs to do some database operations and a bunch of communication operations and each of the jobs needs to reach out to distant servers that may or may not be overwhelmed themselves.

You start with one server it costs almost nothing to host. Sooner or later you want to split out the job servers, then you end up needing to split out the database, when you start getting that many people on your server now you want to consider fault tolerance, Even after tuning you can only fit so many simultaneous users on a web server, you end up needing to do some load balancing. The next step would be trying to split it up geography-wise.

That’s scaling up and it’s what big companies do and it’s very expensive but easy for a small team to manage.

Lemmy on the other hand is designed to be scaled out, running smaller individual user bases on lighter hardware with a bunch of individual administrators instead of a organized team.

If people want to be on a large single cluster application Reddit is still there.

I like what we have a lot better.

They are, probably even too quiet. But the level of griefers, bots and trolls is very very low, and selfishly, I REALLY like that.

which are already doing all the work and should definitely be compensated somehow.

That’s why I donate monthly to my instance :)

A pretty decent sized instance managed will uses a few boxes and some CDN, runs a couple to a few hundred a month, it doesn’t take that many people paying to cover it.

It’s not as bad managing the smaller instances. The app works like it says on the tin until you get really big.

IMO lemmy.world let themselves get WAY bigger than they should have. They had to start doing a hell of a lot more work to keep the thing up.

a while ago where yall saying shit like this became the “normies”

Ohh it’s normal for us. But there are still a lot of sports all-consuming, rabble rousing, linux hating, clue collar people still on Reddit, any I don’t mind them staying over there.

I’m really not happy about bluesky their fragmentation of the fediverse protocols

shrug, I wish they were with us, but they are also a big ole corporate entity, so I’m kind ok with us staying our our side of the fence. As they need to implement payment and corporate protections to their network, we’re free to be free over here.

is only going to harm us in the long run.

We don’t have to play ball. not with them anyway,

I think, If we have any credible threat, it’s going to be from the Governmental gross anti-tampering laws, forced moderation, or backup regulations. They could make it legally difficulty for us to exist.

Do you really think Lemmy could handle the amount of people that Reddit has?

yup. no question. Not one instance mind you, but Reddit is also a giant cluster. (and clusterfuck)

As far as I know the existing instances are usually running on capacity and always in need of donations,

We just need the big bois to stop stuffing themselves. There’s 0 reason to have 2/3 of the totally traffic flooding into world because people are scared of Federation that they never even have to deal with.

Maybe Lemmy would benefit of some way to get people to pay, such as purchasing the ability to give people awards etc.

Maybe we make some premium pay servers with baller architecture, killer response time, user capacity limits and high speed storage?

But the point is that without a business model, the Fediverse will only be able to handle a limited number of enthusiasts before it faces scaling problems.

Eventually, it’s going to be ads, donations or payments. It’s all someone else’s computer, someone has to foot the bill. But at great scale, you should be able to have an ad-free experience for something in the range a dollar or two a month.

How can anyone not love the guy?

YES! #winning

It’s fun for now until the state gets a hold of it. They’ll be over here sooner or later, just let them trickle in and get everyone used to it.

It’s good to have some friends, but don’t let too many normies in…

You’re still paying tax.

I don’t know about you but most of the independent shops near me are heavy right-wing supporters.

One day moratorium on spending is a cease and desist, just a warning

If it makes you feel better, it doesn’t get much worse than where you’re at now in terms of socialization.

A lot of people spend years wearing about what other people are saying and thinking about them. When you hit your forties you realize nobody’s saying or thinking anything about you at all, You’re too busy dealing with their own slice of hell.

Same propaganda works everywhere.

The middle class is deteriorating, pay * isn’t increasing in sync with inflation, less kids, less money in taxes.

The rich aren’t rich in a vacuum, as the * Rich get richer the rest get poorer. It’s pretty easy to target them to hate down one social level.

As far as NHS, well if you’re not overly sick you’re paying too much and most people aren’t overly sick. People who are struggling really get behind the “fuck you I got mine” train when instead they could be on the help me too train.

Rest of the trump voters: not my life, don’t care!

His estate is rich enough to hire a hitman… Not that I think it would happen also not that I think that their precautions would prevent that…

Good to know, whatever it is still with me a headache half the time