Katherine Druckman @katherined@librem.one

Gratuitous self-promotion - a Q&A I wrote with Patrick Ohly, highlighting his work on Kubernetes (#IAmIntel)
https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-Innovation/open-intel/Q-A-Patrick-Ohly-Talks-About-Chopping-Wood-and-Kubernetes-Logs/post/1426064

Apologies Salt-n-Pepa

(Hey yeah, I wanna toot, baby)
Ooh, how you doing, baby?
No, not you, you, the #federated one, yeah
What's your name?
Mastodon? That sounds sexy

Uh, here I go, here I go, here I go again
Geeks, what's my weakness? (FOSS!)
OK then, chillin, browsin, minding my business
Yo Musk, I looked around and I couldn't believe this
I swear, I stared, my tab my witness
The server had it going on with something kinda, uh
Federated, moderated,
I'm not shy, so I asked for the instance

Tech bro? No that don't make me
See what I want sign up to it swiftly
Felt it in my hips so I swiped back from the app of Twits
Then I tapped for the app, make me wanna do posts for it
Pin them like a intro post should be pinned
Came to my timeline then I found all my friends
Don't know how you do the voodoo that you do
Can post from a shell? Well, makes me wanna toot toot toot

Where my tech women at?

This stuff is never free anywhere but the scale of Big Tech insulates you from it somewhat.

I actually think it’s good to be reminded that our ability to communicate comes with a cost – in terms of resources, environmental impact, etc., not just money.

But, equally, it also makes the case that a system optimised to host hundreds of thousands of people on a single instance is not also somehow magically optimised to host just one person.

The latter is the problem I’m exploring with #SmallWeb.

What happens when you have your own Mastodon instance (just for you) where over 21,000 people follow you and when you’re following over 4,300 people?

You end up paying ~€50/month for Mastodon hosting 👀

It also opens up interesting questions: what happens when a popular account joins your instance (hint: it will probably cost the instance maintainers quite a bit… I don’t envy the mastodon.nu folks right now).

#fediverse #mastodon

Who’d have guessed Elon Musk would pay $44 billion to promote Mastodon.

I’m just now realizing I should do an #introduction on here!

I’m Natalie. I’m a #Drupal developer. My comfort zone has always been theming, site building, & content architecture, but I’ve been doing a lot more backend stuff recently. It’s fun! But there is still so much for me to learn! When I’m not busy with work stuff, I enjoy dabbling in #genealogy. Speaking of family, a large chunk of my dad’s side is in #Ukraine , so do not be surprised if you see me toot about Ukraine

If you're running a mastodon server, and you want advice on scaling the PostgreSQL component, for a limited time I'll provide a couple hours of free consulting*. After that I'll refer you off to folks who can help for $$$. DM me.

(* offer not valid for right-wing nodes)