Just your overly smol dwagon that serves as the lead network engineer for The MFN Project. Mostly friendly but bitey! le nomf
IT geek, ham radio hobbyist and VR grimlin!
A reminder that we should be mindful of what TLDs we operate our services and projects on.
One of the things that I feel isn’t being thought about much, is that it isn’t just Meta’s ideology and policies that will harm smaller instances and the fediverse itself; but the volume of data that their userbase will generate.
For smaller instances like mine running on six vcores, 4GB of memory, 512GB storage and a 120Mbps network…I feel like all it would take is a handful of users federating with them and the data flow alone would destroy our resources at the network if not disk level.
No, I don’t plan on allowing my instance to see or interact with theirs; but the point applies to all small instances and part time hobby servers. We don’t have the means to take on the data they could throw out into the federated network.
After being on HRT for nearly a year, the inability to satisfy the need for salt and vinegar flavored gold fishies…my poor tongue though o.O