That's definitely my main concern I have with this federated infrastructure. It's basically the same as IMAP email: if the server goes down, your account and everything it's associated with goes down with it.

It's a neat idea and has some benefits, but there really needs to be some sort of backup system in place. Maybe something like mirror instances, where anyone could spin up an instance with the sole purpose of mirroring another instance in case it goes down.

I've been a loyal RiF user for years. RiF is reddit to me. This really sucks. So long, reddit.

"Spam" reeks of weak horseshit justification for reddit's actions here. Lots of people x-post all sorts of things all the time. They were itching for a legitimate-sounding reason to ban you and they just reached for the first thing they could find using the loosest possible definition.

Except when they clog up hospitals with lung cancer, emphysema and COPD en masse. Now it's everyone's problem.

Unless someone can convince them that healthcare is the work of their boogeyman du jour and they should stay home and suffocate like a real man. Then we're golden. Hey, Fox News, I have an idea for you...

Well, I'm here, aren't I?

Lemonade being fucking delicious isn't reason enough?

I mourn what it was, yes.

There was a recent comment I read about how it's become this incredible resource for the most obscure tech issues and they were reluctant to delete their posts and accounts because they'd receive random messages of thanks years after a tech resource post was made.

And it's true. Reddit has become an invaluable resource for these kinds of things. Not only that, but it's one of the few places that exists on the web where cohesive and coherent discussions even exist. It was always the community and discussion that made reddit great and they want to turn it into yet another swipebait infested serotonin sponge. I sincerely hope lemmy can take its place, but there are going to be some major growing pains if we get big influx of "redfugees."

It almost makes me think that when something becomes such an enormous and invaluable public resource, there should be a legal compulsion to archive it before doing anything that will compromise its accessibility.___

These are some issues I've been thinking about as well.

What's to stop someone from impersonating another user on a different instance? Maybe there should be a distributed user index amongst instances to prevent duplicate usernames?

I think making the federalized infrastructure incumbent upon users to understand and select is not something the average user is going to bother with. This is complicated problem, I don't know the answer might be off the top of my head.

And what happens when an instance goes down? Does every user and their history get torched? Is there a migration process or at least a decommissioning policy in place?

Someone's face is about to match their jumpsuit.

It's a banana, Michael, what can it cost, $10?

After hearing the call audio — and I am not defending spez here — I can actually understand how it might have been initially perceived as a "threat" given the context of the conversation. It was a mix of technical and financial negotiations (or really just spez saying "this is how it is, you can suck it") and Christian was speaking metaphorically about Apollo's API calls being "noisy" and (at least how I understood it) was suggesting perhaps "quiet" it down by optimizing the software.

I am not trying to victim blame here and it absolutely does not excuse spez turning around and publicly shit talking Christian, especially after spez immediately apologized on the call after admitting to misinterpreting what he heard ... anyway, the point I'm trying to make is that it's important to communicate clearly, directly, and unambiguously.

The headline is still that spez is a greedy sack of shit.

Particularly in the way that lemmy isn't finance bro bullshit

Is a captcha out of the question? I guess that wouldn't capture trolls, but maybe it could slightly reduce the application burden.

It should say "fuck reddit" where they join hands.

I'm feeling rather smug and justified telling my clients to keep files on a local server that they control rather than "the cloud" someone else's computer.

Yeah, I'll probably do that at some point, but I think repo issues are supposed to be single topic, so I'll have to do that when I have more time.

Assuming you're not making this argument in bad faith (lol), why would private companies be any more trustworthy? They have every motivation to push whatever narrative their owners (read: advertisers) will pay for.

It'll be like a trainwreck in slow motion

Heart attack from yelling at my computer screen, I guess

Wow. That headline is downright irresponsible.