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What's the general consensus on making private fediverse instances? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Fair enough! I've just gotten used to an internet where you'll get into drama for sneezing the wrong way so I wanted to make sure there wasn't any weird taboo around it.

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What's the general consensus on making private fediverse instances? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
 

I feel like over the past few months, the main thing preventing me from getting super active in the fediverse has been all of the drama surrounding federation and instances shutting down.

I just want to be able to turn my brain off, and not have to think "Will this instance be around in 6 months?" every time I post.

As a result, I've been thinking about creating a Lemmy and/or Mastodon instance that is literally just me and no one else. No communities or anything, simply me posting to other instances via this private instance. And I know that this instance will stay alive and federated for as long as I keep hosting it.

However before I go through the effort of setting these up, I want to know what people think about private instances. Is this bad taste? Is it a logistical nightmare? Have people done this before? And what would the hardware requirements for a 1 user instance look like?

Electric Volvo car drivers will get access to 12,000 Tesla Superchargers across the United States, Canada and Mexico as Volvo Cars adopts North American Charging Standard in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

To be fair, they're not all gonna be suddenly replaced. The manufacturers are going to start producing cars in 2025, and it'll be a fair few years on top of that before the majority of cars on the road are actually using NACS plugs, long enough that a good chunk of the infrastructure will have to be replaced or modified anyways.

While Tesla should've just backed down and adopt the existing standard like in other markets, I don't think this is the worst thing in the world.

[EDIT: CONFIRMED FALSE] Starfield physical edition won't include physical discs. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

From the business side Pretty much just being able to give it as a gift. Also make it more discoverable to people who aren't able to buy it online for whatever reason.

From the personal side No damn idea