I know there is Loops, but it’s not open source or federated yet, so it’s not really an option.

You’ll take my kotlin from my cold dead hands

Yes but we’re also more mastodon less bluesky. If a bluesky-esque clone of Reddit comes along with better UX and paving over the issues of federation then it will win, the way Bluesky has beaten out Mastodon as the Twit alternate

What part is the myth?

Which batteries are “high quality”?

Cause it happens… Pretty regularly if you’re not limiting charging. The older the battery the more likely.

This isn’t something you should fuck around with either: if it pops it’ll burn too hot to extinguish and could take out your house.

Because over time the battery degrades, swells, and becomes a fire risk.

Keeping it only 80% charged can help mitigate it but not fully.

11 years? Nevermind use the laptop for sure haha

You’ll probably save money in the long run using a pi.

It does exist

It was something I never could put words to until NJB showed up. I had already moved to NYC to get away from the burbs and driving.

And then I took the orange pill.

No, he’s wrong (obviously) it’s a for profit startup.

It’s not currently making money but that’s different than nonprofit obviously.

He’s right about the Jack part though.

Mastodon is nonprofit. Blue sky is for profit.

You’re right about the Dorsey part.

I figured given that I’m on c/selfhosted that it probably wasn’t only synapse just was curious about overhead.

I’ve got a little raid 5 8tb server under my desk that I just use locally to fuck around with/VPN back into my house/store larger backups on.

I’d never want to be using it to host anything like a website or service, so I’m always curious what the web hosters have and pay.

How much does a vps cost running your matrix client? It can’t be more than a couple bucks a month right?

Yeah that works. Who is the leader and how does it change? Does Lemmy.World take over because it’s largest?

Consensus algorithms. But it means there will always be duplicate work.

No way around that unfortunately

FOSS doesn’t pay a mortgage.

The rabid “it should be free” crowd here acts like we live in a post scarcity utopia where everything is roses and they deserve whatever they like on demand. The majority of users on this site wouldn’t give a penny to help save their instance from dying.

Reality is that FOSS is basically never given donations (donate to your instance hosts people) and relying on donations is a guarantee that you’ll run a charity at a loss.

Software development is hard work that only a small group of people know how to do (for now: I still hope it’s like 50% of the population in the future but…) And to make independent software full time is a risky endeavor.

You’d have to be off your fucking gord to make FOSS software full time and expect to stay above the poverty line.

Good on you for supporting Sync and Lemmy. I do the same and plan to continue doing so… Cause I want the bad place to Digg it’s own grave with their greed. But that’ll only happen if we’re crowd funding our FOSS.