Posts by kurtseifried@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #APfTb6DOHG8E47kAFs by kurtseifried@mastodon.social
       2022-11-16T17:19:59Z
       
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       @kyle Also reunning services 24/7 with even 99.9% reliability is well beyond most peoples capability, and even if they have the capability do they want to do it? I used to have a full rack in a data center to host seifried.org. Now it's an S3 bucket/Cloudflare. Email is Gmail. I don't want to run all these services and deal with spam/trying to get my email not marked as spam. Isn't the whole point of IT to automate things and make them more reliable? This tends to lead to consolidation.
       
 (DIR) Post #APfs22pxLIAMJ8ADZ2 by kurtseifried@mastodon.social
       2022-11-16T21:53:50Z
       
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       @kyle THat's actually a good point. A specific reason I moved into Gmail is that I could use impasync to get my email in, and out. However now IMAP access requires an application-specific password for gmail users (https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en) and Worksuite can still login, but I'm beginning to wonder how long until IMAP access goes away because "security reasons"? As for Mastodon, it remains to be seen but I assume at leasr a few people are pitching VC's on setting up massive Mastodon communities...
       
 (DIR) Post #APfsmADCFsWYV81eDY by kurtseifried@mastodon.social
       2022-11-16T21:56:41Z
       
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       @valhalla @kyle Store and forward protocols are different (e.g. email vs web server) and Mastodon definitely lends itself to higher latency/less synchronized communications. But you'll still have to deal with things like running out of disk space, moderation, paying for the domain name, updating software, backups (you want backups right?) and all that. It's non-trivial work.It's easy to build a table if you own all the woodworking tools and have a garage and build cabinets for a living.
       
 (DIR) Post #APpuVAyMHUPSLmXc2K by kurtseifried@mastodon.social
       2022-11-21T18:08:35Z
       
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       @mastodonusercount Can you provide the data behind the server instances as a CSV file with join date? A spike that big reeks of spam/abuse servers potentially (e.g. someone just built a farm or a server with a DNS aliasing capability).
       
 (DIR) Post #ARFxiXQtU5LjuLqlmq by kurtseifried@mastodon.social
       2023-01-03T01:54:38Z
       
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       @ariadne Just wait until they find out about tarballs.