I’ve found the biggest thing isn’t any real resource. My instance runs on a core 2 duo with 4GB of RAM, and I really try to get it to waste memory and barely fill the 4GB.

The thing is your instance will be blasted by all the other instances you subscribe to. If you subscribe to too many big communities you might find you’re locked out during peak times, but it should be just fine as long as you’re not crazy with follows like I am lol

One big difference between the json requests and a user callling for the site directly is your instance pulls all the data all the time, whereas a user only pulls the data they use themselves.

Depends on the specific instance. Some services run where they are natively accessible through tor, but most don’t.

Just remember that ActivityPub is a sharing protocol, and individual admins are fully capable of seeing everything. There is no end to end encryption, everything is stored in plain text.

Apparently you’re not aware that science is in a deep crisis right now on several fronts in part because academic researchers know full well they have to give the “right” results in order to advance their careers.

Because the internet is not your friend and something exactly like this will happen. Then someone will take something you said totally out of context to try to get you canceled.

Yes. This isn’t big tech where tech daddy is sitting over your shoulder reading your messages to sell your info to advertisers.

The article, as they say, “Assumes facts not in evidence”

Who puts their real name into their mastodon account…?

It’s also sort of an egocentric action – “I don’t like some users over there, so nobody should be allowed to interact with any of the users over there”

The threadiverse will continue to grow, and there’s going to be people of all kinds joining up. We need to figure out how to coexist as individuals because you can’t just have every instance defederate with everyone else because there might be a bad user.

That’s childish and petty.

You know that Facebook uses javascript? Do we stop using javascript? How about html? Do we shut that down? How about http? Do we shut that down? How about tcp/ip? How about the ascii character set?

The internet is based on Open standards. The idea that we would create a new standard just because someone we don’t like is using that standard is a non-starter.

The idea that we would then kick out the people who created the standard to begin with, who founded this ecosystem because they made a decision that we disagree with, you’re not looking for the internet, you’re looking for high school. Everyone can form their clique.

I can’t say with certainty, but I’m pretty sure that it’ll just find a way to gracefully degrade. The fact is that Mastodon is literally the elephant in the room, if you make your thing incompatible with it, you screwed up.

I use rebased which is another non mastodon back-end that supports many of the same features. I think that generally speaking you’re not going to have to worry. Yes, your emotes won’t show up on their post for them because Mastodon doesn’t actually support that, but it’ll show up as a like. If you use quote reposts then it’ll just show up as a link to the original comment.

Extended color basic on the COCO was amazing, and so when I moved to a Commodore 64 I was like “What the hell is this? Where’s all the graphics commands?”

Then the grizzled old curmudgeon bellied up to the bar and said “ONE WORD. BASIC.”

And everyone else in the room pointed and laughed. But I still like it. shut up.