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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.

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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

For the and people out there who are curious about , I wrote up some thoughts on the recent eBPF Summit with links to a few particularly good talks. Enjoy! intel.com/content/www/us/en/de

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

I recorded this episode of @reality2cast back in April with @shawnp0wers and @kyle about making the move from Twitter to the fediverse with Mastodon and I think it’s all still relevant. It’s a fun and nerdy chat you can check out here: reality2cast.com/109 🤓🎙️

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@starshaped I decided to give the Hobonichi weeks planner a try because the size seemed perfect for portability, and holy wow is the paper awesome. Kind of mind blowing. I got the mega, which I may or may not even need, but it’s still not that thick. Amazing.

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)

I hear some instances have an edit feature. I only have "delete & re-draft," so I mostly just live with my typos. 🤷

This post on by @dsearls is getting a lot of nice attention, but I’d love to see more comments and feedback. I’ve also enabled the chat feature, and I’m curious to see if that will encourage some discussion. reality2.substack.com/p/the-di

Time for an . I've been involved in and since the late `90s. My career started as a sysadmin, pivoting to security. I'm the President of @purism and work on hardware and software to protect , and freedom.

I've written a number of books (kylerank.in/writing.html) and was a long-time columnist for Linux Journal magazine.

I have many hobbies including , refurbishing mechanical , , , and many other things.

@purism Is there a way to show a "bounce" message or something for people trying to DM someone on social.librem.one from another instance?

I can't receive DMs because they are disabled on the instance I'm on, but if you send me one, there is no way for you to know this. SO, I'm NOT ignoring you. I just don't see them. :)

Tomorrow 11/2 at 11:30AM EDT: I'm joining a panel of experts in DPI (Digital Public Infrastructure) for some lively discussion around and frontiersdigitaldevforum.com/a

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