dude, youre still alive? congrats

naaw rollerblades are too easy. get him some quads. chicks dig the quads

A firehose relay takes TB’s of storage

which is similar nonsense which ActivityPub has with replicating whole datasets everywhere… cept its one company controlling the whole shebang. its a failure of design.

ive been asking about this for a long time. ive yet to be presented with a non-bluesky controlled relay instance. this is a lynch-pin of the protocol and prevents true federation.

happy to be proven wrong someday, but bluesky is just twitter with user-contolled nodes. they can decide to remove nodes at their whim.

i freakin love fast food, and as soon as covid hit i had to start a ‘blacklist’ of places that have gotten so bad (chipotle/tacobell/bugerking), its just not even kind of worth it.

fiveguys is one of my favorites as it did not change in any way.

theres also a critical ‘relay’ component required that so far only Bluesky runs, so not-so-federated.

there is no such thing as a 100% independent bluesky install to which people can attach also independent nodes (PDS).

mbin does this by default;

you runnin your own relay or is it all ‘except the relay and appview’?

go lookup the tax rates in the 60s/70s. we used to

is this where we get to explain again why its not really ai?

does it really matter?

i had this exact issue until i wiped my machine this summer and it refreshed into a full win11 after the crowdstrike debacle

i hate ms with every fiber of my being, but teams has gotten better. it used to be practically unusable. now its just mostly so

they wanted at least some feature parity with twitter in order to draw users expecting that environment.

ive never lived in a house or apt without one. they seem ubiquitous to me. seems weird there wouldnt be one.

i used to call the micrblog stuff the ‘twitterverse’… and i kind of still want to. I may edit my mbin instance to use that term, and i also hate ‘magazine’ in favor of ‘Subs’ or ‘Community’

to me all of these server products are federating media servers with varying access to those 2 pieces. the underlying software should be nearly irrelevant except for them.

the ‘community/magazine’ is the source of the data and ‘remote’ servers cache that data. when i post to tenforward im posting to the source@itshomeinstance and my server receives a copy… a locally cached version.

my server still has a ton of kbin.social content for example despite that server being doa.

i refer to my instance, at the moment, as primarily an ‘onramp’ server. my users utilize it to access remote content almost exclusively as you point out piefed does. But, my server also caches a huge amount of fediverse data… both from all the lemmys and major microblog platforms mastodon, threads, and universodeon among others.

the specific platform lemmy.world utilizes should have no impact on me or my users if they do things correctly.

the threadiverse is a subset of the fediverse (microblog + threaded forums)

forumverse isnt a bad suggestion… doesnt seem to roll off the tongue though. im going to use threadiverse as its the value i want to see and i dont give 2 shits about meta.

users dont block incoming IPs for instances.

this is useless advice for op.

talk to the admin

https://kbin.melroy.org/contact

mbin only. i prefer the threadiverse