Most of those are due to COVID. Not that he didn’t make it all worse…

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If you can find a new one. They are $45+ on ebay used. None of the usual US sellers has any.

IF you were a bad actor, this is exactly the argument to use to get more inside information to use in the next attack.

Establishing trust is the first problem to be overcome.

Long article - awkward beginning - very worth reading through. Thanks.

As someone “in the business”, but not nearly as technical as you… How far can a single instance scale? Can a load balancer spread it over mulitple front-ends to handle user load? Can the back-end be re-worked to handle hundreds of millions of user operations per second? Can it work with a CDN? Can a single “Lemmy.World” site exist as a distributed site - with hundreds of servers spread across dozens of sites across the globe?

I expect this entire line of thought is antithetical to the entire Lemmy philosophy of distributed operation. I expect that the “correct” way is to spin off “NA.Lemmy.World”, EMEA. Lemmy.World", APAC.Lemmy.World", etc. as separate servers. Is that correct?

Thanks.

All good. I’m just some crusty old guy that remembers before the Silmarillion was published. Don’t take me too seriously. I’m NOBODY’S target audience.

Personal preference: Memes are a big turn-off for me. But if people have a serious discussion about the books (themes, word usage, overlooked patterns, etc.) I’m all in. Not that you asked.

Some exist…

!homeautomation@lemmy.world !homeassistant@lemmy.world

I did exactly that. Founded r/recumbent and handed it off when it involved actual work.

I’d like to set up communities for my small suburban town and county. Maybe next week…

Something like r/sysadmin and r/networking. A place to discuss widespread outages would be nice.

Neuropsychology and philosophy discussions. Ask-science -type groups like whatisthisbug and Geology.

Anything based on sharing meaningful discussions. As opposed to memes and song-lyric-threads.

I founded r/recumbent - then handed it off to better folks once it took off. I still mod r/NOC and r/Apraxia. They’ll all die. That’s OK.

It’s the people, really. Sure there are a lot of memesters and low-value content. But when you found folks that took a discussion seriously and LISTENED and put thought into their replies. The very best was when -after a few rounds- someone I started out disagreeing with taught me something. And I also taught them. Philosophy, AI Art, Music, News, Sysadmin, even sometimes in Politics. BestOf is an obvious big loss.