darkfoe @ darkfoe @lemmy.serverfail.party

Long-term Linux operations guy who somehow became a Golang developer.

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Same. I know it's more work than caddy etc, but I've been doing it for eons now so it's muscle memory at this point.

The fact it's only so far a one season run makes me happy. Gives the writers time to actually have some fun with it - which is important since it has been so long.

Take a look at https://browse.feddit.de/

There's a auto-updating list showing even the popularity level - helps a ton finding them!

Current communities are popping up like crazy today and the previous couple days, so it's a bit to keep track of.

The bigger instances mostly are fine on the auth side, it's primarily pictures and some slow SQL stuff being worked on still. So best thing some users can do on smaller instances is be aware that the bigger ones may go up and down a little, so content may come in bursts from the communities on the bigger ones

Awesome, thanks for all the recommendations folks! I'm going to try out calibre-web and kavita and see how they are

Thanks! It's my "fun" domain.

But yeah, you shouldn't have any issues with bandwidth if you don't have a massive amount of users. The big instances are running into bottlenecks related to CPU/disk speed from what I've been seeing vs network speed.

Judging from my DO usage network chart, with me subscribed to a ton of communities: minimal. Just a lot of API calls back and forth from federated servers.

Git clone completed - seeing a lot of companies crack down on everything lately, so clone your favourite repos!

Admin-level moderation is getting quite out of hand I see.

Use a web archiver on old.reddit.com and store the stuff away for now, is my recommendation. There are concerns about ownership of the content on reddit from a legal perspective, so best to archive as a reference more than anything

"Who in wrote this darn test? It's not even testing the right thing!!"

checks commits

"OH. It was me. I did this to myself."

I've barely got any posts on there, so I've kind of just left my account for now. I'll purge it later on once I feel like all of my niche communities I need are elsewhere.

I however, do not visit it more than once a day now though, and I expect that frequency to drop-off (primarily for local level news right now - too small to expect them to migrate elsewhere for now)

I mean, it's a message board. It's just unknown actors running the servers, but everything is public anyway so post accordingly.

Reddit was just controlled by a corporation is the only real difference.

Yeah Reddit would make an excellent private company with the right owner and likely some re-structuring, but as a public company ooh boy.

Outside some niche subs I'm not on there more than once a day just to see if my lemmy subs missed something, and it's my last form of social media outside discord/matrix, so if lemmy does take off enough I'll probably only be there for the odd technical search, which I suspect lemmy will take care of in time.

Probably restrict them more before IPO would be my guess

This is also very true. Tech sector has been doing layoffs and admittingly these ones are pretty tiny in comparison to some other places, which is another factor why I think there will be more. And burning cash is quite true, which is part of why their investors are probably pushing hard for them to be ready for an IPO.

Initial Public Offer. Basically, the company going public on the stock market. They tend to try and look "shiny" before going public to make them attractive to buyers who want to make money from investing into the company.

In my experience (from working a place that has done this) they will do some waves of layoffs and make some operational budget cuts, as well as sometimes freeze some capex spending so the books look juicier. This includes things that may cause long-term harm, for short ish (under a year) gain.

Script is pretty similar with most companies that do this in tech, with predictable results.

It's a fraction of the work of an email server, if you're not keeping many users on it. Ie, my personal instance requires almost no work

Lot of tech folks needed and support IT staff to keep the site running. You'd be surprised how many even non-tech companies have to keep services running (well, the good ones at least - rest overwork their folks)

Ahh here it comes. Expect more - IPO layoffs (from personal experience) are definitely a thing