• kelce@kbin.social
    15·
    2 years ago

    People joke about being addicted to reddit but imagine the mods. They are probably the most addicted/invested out of everyone to want to provide such services for from. Super proud of the mods who didn’t crack but not surprised that so many either just protested for show or buckled under slight pressure.

    • EuphoricPenguin@normalcity.lifeEnglish
      12·
      2 years ago

      I maintained a fairly neutral position (as a mod) while the blackout was starting, but I’m slipping more and more into the Lemmy rabbit hole. First it was getting my own instance running, but now things are starting to take shape and it’s actually a lot of fun trying to keep up with both the server hosting and community building. Plus, everyone here has strong small-Internet-town vibes, which makes interacting with people much more enjoyable than on Reddit. My goal is to get my instance self-funded through donations, but I’m more than happy to keep paying for hosting in the interim. People who talk about Lemmy not being a “viable alternative” probably say so because they don’t get it.

      • areyouevenreal@kbin.social
        2·
        2 years ago

        I am surprised I never hear of people running it from old desktops or such. A fibre internet connection and a old desktop is gonna be faster than the cheaper tiers of online hosting. This is especially true if you say upgraded your desktop in the last couple if years and kept the old parts like I did.

        • paperclipgroove@kbin.social
          1·
          2 years ago

          Biggest cost then would be electric. Older PC, probably…70 watts. So about 600kWh/year. Maybe about between $60-$150 per year.

          Much cheaper than any hosting I know and bandwidth costs are absorbed into your monthly bill.

          The real risk would be hardware failure. Hopefully you’ll have backups or a user base that won’t care if the instance goes offline for quite a while.

          There’s also a risk of unexpected security vulnerabilities letting an attacker compromise your public facing machine to get into your home network if you don’t have it physically firewalled off.

          Personally, I’ll just let someone else deal with all the hosting issues. I’d rather donate if they requested than deal with all of that indefinitely.

        • EuphoricPenguin@normalcity.lifeEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          There are a lot of genuine reasons people don’t self-host from home, including, but not limited to: a) chance of security issues from firewall misconfiguration, b) mediocre speeds and intermittent service for people who don’t have symmetric fiber connections, c) chance of security issues from RCE/shell access/XSS, especially bad if the server is not not properly isolated from the rest of the LAN, and d) TOS violations leading to disruptions in service (it’s against the TOS for FiOS, for example, to host web-facing servers). If you’re confident in your home labbing skills, are security-conscious, have a good connection, and know you won’t tick anyone off, you’re probably fine. For the rest of us, paying for VPS hosting is a lot cheaper than a zero-day screwing over your entire network, or an innocent mistake out of inexperience opening up major holes in your router firewall. You obviously get much cheaper hosting, but you also inherit a lot more to worry about in the process.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Going to hell? They’ve already put their towels on the sun loungers.

    • Anomander@kbin.social
      6·
      2 years ago

      Of note, old.reddit doesn’t display the “this post has been removed” message while new.reddit does; in old the post appears to still be up and normal.

      This is fairly standard, though, whether or not that message shows in old.reddit has always been wildly inconsistent.

      • ENEMYGUNSHIP@kbin.socialOP
        4·
        2 years ago

        yep I used old, because on new I don’t see the image, only title + post removed message.

        some of the comments are pretty good too, at least the ones with positive karma

      • empireOfLove@lemmy.one
        2·
        2 years ago

        The only way to tell if a post was mod removed on old reddit when direct linked, if there is no mod removal message (itself a cowardly indicator), is if the thumbnail shown turns blank and shows the “snoo with ?”. Reddit appears to purge thumbnails from removed posts.

  • LordBelphegor@vlemmy.net
    5·
    2 years ago

    I was the lone mod of a small sub. I did made the sub go private for 48 hrs. After that i made a poll asking whether i should close the sub indefinitely. 75% of the members said no. So then i asked people to step up to be mods so i can leave and i did just that after assigning 2 mods.

  • User Deleted@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    2·
    2 years ago

    I mean its not really effective to use a corporation’s platform to coordinate a protest against the same corporation’s policies. Kinda reminds me of an article that said that some Apple Employees are using Android devices due to fear of Apple spying on iPhones if they used to coordinate a unionization attempt.