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Oh, looks like I’m switching instances.
Oh, looks like I’m switching instances.
What you’ll likely see is the button links to a centralized service that sends you to the Lemmy instance you are logged into
So the button would never link directly to any Lemmy instance but some central server that sends you to your own instance.
Who would run that server? Probably the same guys who develop these button integrations.
Email is the one thing I don’t bother self hosting.
You need to use an existing host with reputation or most of your emails will end up in junk or be outright blocked.
I showed my friend all of the privacy problems with threads and his response was ‘I don’t care, they already have everything anyway’.
I told another friend and their response was ‘I don’t care if they have my data, it’s not much use to them and it doesn’t have any effect on me’
The world is hopeless.
I think it’s just because this guy left a comment, the algorithm picked up the post again.
Kinda like ‘bumping’ a thread in the forum days.
This post is 2 years old lol
It really boils down to availability. A VPS will usually be more reliable than a home network.
For 99% of personal use though a home network behind a dynamic DNS service will be more than good enough.
I feel like the EEE attack is inevitable at this point.
Why else would they even be willing to federate?
They saw the threat that decentralized non-profit social media is and want to kill it before it has a chance.
All Lemmy servers and especially the largest ones need to defederate from it immediately.
Halo was a legit competitor to cod just past a decade ago.
Now you can’t even compare them because COD is bigger than ever while halo is a shadow of its former self.
Infinite really could have been a partial comeback for halo if they had a steady stream of content after launch, but somehow they added even less than most non-live service games.
ID software (makers of doom), would make a halo game better than anything 343 could put out.
The single player on rails experience is desperately needed.
In a nutshell: corporate greed. The only part of the game that was live service was the paid cosmetics.
At launch, their entire idea of more ‘content’ was just visual cosmetics. If you look at their communications at the time it will all make sense.
They constantly referred to an internal ‘live service’ team separate from the rest of the game, and that team was effectively the ‘cosmetics team’.
People talk about contractors, but this was the real problem. They thought they could get away with barely adding any real content and selling tons of cosmetics.
I pay them nearly $100 a month for internet. They can get fucked if they want to dictate what legal things I do with it.
Another Pro tip:
If you really want to self host and have good internet speeds, then just use a dynamic dns service to point a domain at your home network :)
It’s free minus the power costs. Sure you won’t be able to guarantee availability but for most personal(and friends/family) use it’s more than good enough.
I say this because the reason a lot of people use VPS is because their ISP won’t give them a static IP. You don’t need a static IP.
The problem is a UI thing too. In wefwef for example half the time you go to post something and it says ‘error posting’, your comment actually did post. But sometimes it doesn’t.
I typically go until I see success and then delete any duplicates I left on accident.
I am one of those users.
Don’t even feel the need to go back to reddit. This platform is going to take off.
Man this game is such a joke.
I personally voted to allow memes for the sake of growing this place quickly but I’m happy with the result. The number of votes shows that we probably already have enough active users to create meaningful discussions.
I think that would qualify as a meme though ;).
I’m sorry to burst your bubble 😅.
Rather than try to explain it myself, here’s a post from someone else that does a decent job: https://www.maketecheasier.com/how-progress-bars-work/
Given their post on mastodon saying they won’t defederate, I would bet money they took that meeting and signed an NDA.
Maybe they even are getting some funding out of it.
This is all speculation of course, but if they don’t deny it then I think it’s pretty likely.