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(DIR) Post #AsFf4hH1gj6Oby7zo8 by Flaky@furry.engineer
2025-03-20T15:55:36Z
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Welp. The Mastodon account of someone in the AWS sphere suddenly stopped existing yesterday.All the more reason I prefer Bluesky's "centralised app, decentralised profile" approach in the long-run.https://bsky.app/profile/quinnypig.com/post/3lkqop2diws2v#Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky
(DIR) Post #AsFf4i16vNxuutgndg by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T16:09:28Z
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@Flaky I have a kneejerk dislike of the characterization of flaky Mastodon instances as "FOSS" ideology, but I admit that my formative years were in a time where open source was often higher-quality than closed-source offerings, and most of the time far more professional.It's still somewhat there, I feel, but all software has declined.Personally, I think "hobbyist" ideology is a more direct culprit. Professional services take a professional approach.
(DIR) Post #AsFf4iYmuAu6bLRh8C by sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party
2025-03-20T16:37:04.073399Z
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@sekka @Flaky honestly the problem is the same one forums had like 10-20 years agoEvery schmuck with like 5 friends is starting his own forum and he realizes that there's a lot that nobody tells you.I have learned you have the best experience here self hosting because you can choose between an unreliable host or a massive blocklist and it helps keep the network from becoming 2-3 massive instances.
(DIR) Post #AsFf4leZP8JOC9Ar3o by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T16:17:33Z
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@Flaky Also, Mastodon is a pretty serious software stack for someone who doesn't have any production experience. I have some big "O" opinions about its design, but ultimately there's a level of complexity in any production service that demands some degree of respect. And users really have no way of auditing their instance owners' experience or "chops."As I recently said, mastodon isn't expensive to run, but it can be expensive to run well. It takes a commitment to quality.
(DIR) Post #AsFf4lh3FuISJqKpvc by Flaky@furry.engineer
2025-03-20T16:01:36Z
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if you're going to tell them to join another instance, or that they joined the wrong instance, you're part of the problem. it's frustrating that the Fediverse just doesn't listen to the issues raised by regular people.it's getting better (thanks in part to Bluesky putting the pressure on as a "competitor" probably) but I think Mastodon and the rest of fedi should stop listening to FOSS hobbyist ideologies, it's holding the network back so much. Best example is this: Mastodon is making a spec for auxiliary services that can handle things like spam detection, so instances don't have to, which seems alright, but then you have shit like this in the issues:https://github.com/mastodon/fediverse_auxiliary_service_provider_specifications/issues/46
(DIR) Post #AsFfBhguXBgNvvZnPM by mischievoustomato@tsundere.love
2025-03-20T16:38:24.024623Z
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@Flaky the fediverse is not for regular people
(DIR) Post #AsFfEDmICugE1nIISG by Wiz@loli.church
2025-03-20T16:38:52.213Z
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@mischievoustomato@tsundere.love @Flaky@furry.engineer say it again for the kids in the back.
(DIR) Post #AsFfFm2EKGTCZ1UNcm by egirlyuumimain@poa.st
2025-03-20T16:39:07.566445Z
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@mischievoustomato @Flaky No it's just for frenz
(DIR) Post #AsFfY2vKGz9k9hyMfA by pettanko@varishangout.net
2025-03-20T16:42:25.189941Z
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@mischievoustomato @Flaky funny you're saying this to a furry
(DIR) Post #AsFffpvMULAu9ghiHA by mischievoustomato@tsundere.love
2025-03-20T16:43:51.150661Z
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@pettanko @Flaky yeah
(DIR) Post #AsFhWzL4JcbgekdXzE by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T16:53:58Z
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@sendpaws @Flaky Mhm. I'm an old-skool BBS sysop who evolved into a production systems administrator and then a production infrastructure architect. My point of view is that there are a lot of people who simply aren't equipped with the knowledge or skillset to run a production service—and many of them don't even understand what that really means when you say it. Redundancy, scalability, backups, security, caching, queuing, and so on.Spinning up a server is the easy part.
(DIR) Post #AsFhX0GqqmpNXxfh3I by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T16:57:19Z
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@sendpaws @Flaky I mean, I could use this as a jumping off point for my rant on why "just put developers on it" (a la "just put security on it") is inherently destructive as well. A developer (or hobbyist) tends to look at things from the position of "Can we?" whereas an architect or sysadmin (in the production sense of the word) tends to look at the problem as "should we?"For many hobbyists, "LOOK DUDE I GOT MASTODON ON MY RASPBERRY PI HANGING OFF MY FIOS, HOW COOL IS THAT?!" is peak "admin."
(DIR) Post #AsFhX1F7Ej28YrrozA by sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party
2025-03-20T17:04:37.095855Z
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@sekka @Flaky>For many hobbyists, "LOOK DUDE I GOT MASTODON ON MY RASPBERRY PI HANGING OFF MY FIOS, HOW COOL IS THAT?!" is peak "admin."A lot of times outside the Mastodon sphere they're people running single user instances, like how people would run MC/video game servers 12 years ago before the Matchmaking Queue killed it.
(DIR) Post #AsFhX43AnaGNGhIpHs by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T17:00:15Z
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@sendpaws @Flaky And if they bought an edgy, cool, or memorable domain, the users will come. They don't understand the incredible responsibility they're undertaking when they offer their services to the public, both legally and ethically.In truth, even professional software engineers are often just as bad as hobbyists in that regard.
(DIR) Post #AsFhXDP81KAmHOdzG4 by sekka@shark.community
2025-03-20T17:00:55Z
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@sendpaws @Flaky Anyway, I'll stop reply-spamming. ^_^ I just wanted to chime in.
(DIR) Post #AsFhj4d2TR1YXNnyU4 by sendpaws@mitra.pawslut.party
2025-03-20T17:06:49.657525Z
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@sekka @Flaky>They don't understand the incredible responsibility they're undertaking when they offer their services to the public, both legally and ethically.Hence, why IMO it's forum admins all over again. Forum admins literally would learn this the hard way, when their old "free" version of Invision 1.3 had endless amounts of exploits (this is a very real example of shit that happened to someone I knew btw) instead of just using phpbb or something else. Or spam attacks. Or some jilted ex member exploiting the site, etc.