Many weird behaviors has been caused by this. A friend of mine couldnt see any new posts in a community anymore until he figured out this was the reason.

Took a long time to figure out too… It’s not exactly intuitive.

This was a thing in the beginning, a lot of instances had just spinning buttons on signup if email didn’t work correctly.

I felt the same excitement in the beginning. I still think it’s much nicer than the big tech alternatives which I never use.

It’s really nice. I have no need to use anything else.

Downvotes dont even matter… Sure they push down your comments but if you write good stuff, others will upvote it.

Wow that sounds delicious. Writing it down, thanks!

Indian food! Had to walk through snow storm to get t to restaurant… :) But good food.

It’s lunch here. :)

Yeah it’s nice to upvote and comment here to show activity since we aren’t that many. :)

“I have problem, fix please. App doesn’t work. I use a phone.”

/s

Even compared to Sync?

It’s not out for me…:/

In the way of getting better mod tools, sure.

I feel like Lemmy.world will benefit, not so much everyone else.

I don’t really feel motivated since Lemmy is centralized now on Lemmy.world. It would have been great with a decentralized network, but sadly we didn’t get there.

The value of Lemmy for me is in its decentralized nature. Otherwise we may as well use reddit or some other centralized corp service.

With almost all users, communities and links going to Lemmy.world… Let’s just say I don’t want to pay for another centralized network.

You are paying aws to not have one big server, so you get high availability and dynamic load balancing as instances come and go.

I agree its not cheaper than being on prem. But it’s much higher quality solutions.

Today at work, they decided to upgrade from ancient Ubuntu version to a more recent version. Since they don’t use aws properly, they treat servers as pets. So to upgrade Ubuntu, they actually upgraded Ubuntu on the instance instead of creating a new one. This led to grub failing and now they are troubleshooting how to mount disks etc.

All of this could easily be avoided by using the cloud properly.

It’s a different form of lock-in since it’s just his creation. When he leaves, all of this will be very hard to maintain and the company will probably rebuild it all on aws.

I have been bringing this up but they say that it’s too late to change direction now (they are afraid to upset the guy).

But I’m looking on the bright side. I get to learn a lot of stuff I otherwise I wouldnt if this was a single managed aws service. I’m bringing in terraform and instead of just putting a message queue there, I need to spin up entire architectures to run his ec2 instances with all the apps and everything required to make things work.

Takes months… So for me it’s fun. I don’t have to pay for it. But companies are crazy. :)

Companies are often insane. I’m working in one who has this one guy build a super complicated architecture, because he don’t know aws. So instead of just using a message queue on aws, he is building Java programs and tons of software and containers to try and send messages in a reliable way. Costs the company huge money, but they don’t care, since he is some old timer who has been there for like 10 years and everyone let’s him do what he wants.

Reminds me of Spin City and Carters dog :)

I think I like this more than corporate bullshit. :)