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Could we please add a rule to ban musk spam? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If lemmy had user-defined filters, I'd use them. Right now I'm downvoting the stuff, but there's already a community for musk-related stuff: [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

How about Cloud (someone else's computers) vs. Colo/Data Center (someone else's cooling and UPS/Generators Your computers) - the cost of running a data center correctly is huge. This is not even counting the 24/7 availability of help or security on the site.

Of course, if you can get away with a 2 servers in a single rack more power to ya.