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Cake day: July 11th, 2023

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  • traffic volume is already a serious consideration, but theroetically its what you request. its not like an instance comes up and suddenly needs to interact with 500 other servers.

    if you on your personal instance decide you need to subscribe to thousands of communities on thousands of servers… isnt that kinda on you? i mean… how could you personally ever expect to consume that volume?

    if youre on a community instance and the instance itself is drawing a metric fuckton of traffic… scale up. the good platforms will scale.

    that said, ive kinda tried to sub to every server i can find just for giggles… it ‘pre-loads’ the content on my instant for new users in the ‘newest’ queues.

    there are mitigations you can put in place for rate-limiting other servers also… your server would just fall farther and farther behind

    personally, i think it scales better than other options. bluesky doesnt scale at all





  • true story;

    im comin back through customs in the bahamas to get on plane the the unites states. i am drunk and stoned out of my gord because we decided to ‘get rid of everything’ before we headed for home…

    so i get in line and the armed customs officer looks my drunk ass up and down, pats me down… lifts up my shirt and sticks his finger in the little 5th pocket of my jeans… and pulls out a tiny baggie. you know, the little mini ziplock baggies.

    i just about shit my freakin pants right there wracking my brain for what the fuck i bought that would be in that baggie.

    computer screws… specifically a set of screws for a hard drive install. you got me officer, is nerd.