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I didn't have the energy to write all that and what I woud have written would have been 90% the same so thank you! The parent doesn't know how things actually are in corporations. Neither about hosting stability, nor data security, nor regulation, nor financial security, nor responsibility. Most of the concerns they had with the random dude are valid for any typical, in other words limited liability, corporation. And the big instances are not at all hosted by some random dude. You can't run a big instance without sysadmin knowledge at the very least. The three I have looked into, lemmy.ca, lemmy.world and lemmy.ml, are all run by either software developers or system/database admins. At least two of them are also well funded which we can tell due to the transparent funding and available track record. Small non-profit teams and organizations have made much bigger contributions to my life and society than many big corporations. From Wikipedia, through Mozilla to all the outfits behind most open source software that literally runs the world. Two random dudes write the crypto for the security that nearly every corporation uses (OpenSSL). Anyways. I'm not writing this to change minds. Just expressing my thoughts and reaction. 🥲
I tried not to bring up individual instances... but to your point there... I'm a CISO... My whole job is data security. My instance is 100% for sure safe... and honestly I probably have better tools in place than a good 80-90% of companies that you give all sorts of private information to.
I felt that point wasn't specifically relevant, but it's just odd that people treat companies as better than individuals in general... My uptime actually beats Amazon this year so far. And I'm hosting from hardware in my garage, which happens to be a cluster of proxmox boxes with a good dedicated 60 amps of power and 6+ hours of battery backup.
The datacenter my business is in contract with... I have better uptime than them... They've had 3 major outages in the past 9 months.
Businesses are not infallible... and honestly are likely worse to work with since no individual ever feels compelled to own up to the mistakes. It's always shareholders and money with businesses. I love working with vendors that are 1-3 man teams... They are ALWAYS vested and always do good work IMO... It's the large places that pass the buck everywhere they can and everything is always a shoe-string shitshow.
Just my additional 2 cents to continue the discussion.
Heavy agreement. Having seen how corporations host and treat data, it's a clown show. Everyone knows noone can be held accountable beyond being fired and execs and shareholders know they can't lose the money they already made. It's certainly better than that in some places but that's the baseline because those are the incentives. It's only better if there's lots of money on the line in case of a data breach. Real scenario from a corporation:
That's of course security patches by some random dudes, for the software written by the random dudes.
🤦♂️🤦♀️🤦
Anyway, what's your instance?
E: Found it.
E2: I'm falling asleep, I assumed it's a public instance. I'll probably be standing up my own at some point too.
https://lemmy.saik0.com is my instance. I'm treating it as the original myspace idea... friends of friends can get in. Also makes the local communities much better IMO...
Running in an LXC container on a proxmox cluster, all the data stored on a ceph cluster. Backed up nightly to a large 400TB backup server. Proxied through cloudflare (yes I've gotten cloudflare working correctly enough... I should probably clean up the page rules a touch...). The only thing I'm missing in my "homelab" is offsite backup... Of which I'm looking for tape libraries or similar things I can put into my rack to swap out every week or so to an offsite location.
And your example of the Ubuntu thing is even worse the moment you bring up windows environments. I know so many companies still running Windows 2012... And their reasoning? "Well it's still supported until October right?"... Not realizing it probably takes months to a year to validate all the software they're going to have to migrate. Clown show is accurate.
Great stuff.
Honestly, even if most folks from Reddit don't stay, the ones that know will most likely stay. I've been here for a week and I know I will. In the worst case scenario it'll turn out like Slashdot used to be. Frequented by knowledgable folks sharing News for nerds, stuff that matters. If that's all we get in the end, it won't be so bad. 👌
But I think a lot more will stay.
Anyway, good night!