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Lemmy and the Fediverse give me faith in humanity

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I'd say they're comparable and have similar problems experienced in different ways.

On mastodon, a big name becomes the stress on the server. It's like people showing up to a small coffee shop to hear a politician speak about something. If the politician becomes more renowned / popular, eventually they have rallies. Eventually those rallies are broadcasted and licestreamed... All that means more infra and more $

Lemmy has the problem of communities. Communities sometimes gather in small places like a person's house or a bar. If that community grows large, maybe they need to have a conference / convention (like an anime or tech community). That means the instance that hosts that community has to has a conference sized instance, to host all the lads/lasses/etc of the fediverse.

More eyeballs / more discussion = more demand. Simple as that.

edit: I will add that there is one difference. You might have your own little small fragmented community, here on sh.itjust ... like for skateboards. More intimate discussion, etc. This would potentially prevent c/skateboards on an instance from growing too large....

But there is only one @gargron that most people will follow.

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[Discussion] Potential of a Meta ActivityPub client

I think there are really great points / angles being presented on this issue. If you Shitheads want to de-federate, I'll stand in solidarity; However, I very much concur with a lot of the salient nuance being presented in this thread, along with the linked threads.

At the end of the day, this particular community should take action in defense of the plural. Those who feel otherwise, revel in the utility of freedom-of-exit that the fediverse grants us -- yet, I hope your new community will stay federated so we can continue to share ideas.

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Master's thesis ideas in networking

This, and their other CC books, is a great starting place. Especially because it has a hands-on section you can build upon:

https://5g.systemsapproach.org/README.html

Maybe take a larger forest view of convergence & orchestration of a provides core.. from access to fabric.

Other than that, lots is being said about the true meaning of network source of truth. Check some NANOG talks for free on their YouTube channel. Check out Jeremy Stretch's fairly recent blog post on Netbox (packetlife.net).

If you're looking for more greybeard Inspiration, check out some great analysis from Geoff Huston on potaroo.net and think of interesting software defined ways to demonstrate his analysis (maybe become the next Kentik etc.)

Russ White & Ivan Pepnelnjak are also great grey beard thinkers.

Best of luck with your thesis.

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Monitor Your Network the GPL Way with LibreNMS

LibreNMS is great. If you put in the work, it can be wonderful. Those who were around at the time remember just how bad other systems were, then Observium's founder crashed out and LibreNMS, Observium's fork, really shined.

Any SMB would get amazing value out of LibreNMS to this day. Sadly, it's not really keeping pace with things like event driven architecture nor streaming telemetry. But building a modern LibreNMS in the aggregate with Streaming telemetry, grafana, prometheus, NATS, suzie-q, etc. is way harder than it seems. LibreNMS & it's intuitive UI & SNMP walking still makes me smile.

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Question: Network Monitoring service that's not Solarwinds

Another vote for LibreNMS. I've been using it for a long time and it's just great for most small - relatively large orgs (you have to work a bit harder to deploy it properly / distributed, if you're going for a larger build).

I've also had Zabbix data piped into grafana and that was rock solid.... I just find that Zabbix requires quite a bit more finessing to get going, if you're not a seasoned sysadmin.

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