Just more confirmation that centralized VPNs, and therefore basically all VPNs most people use, are doomed to fail in their purpose, and are sometimes worse than no VPN.
Look at it positively: Even if many skilled programmers get fired, it's not like most of us won't survive. And once the bubble pops, we're the ones needed the most. Including getting headhunted and good salaries.
As well as unmaintainable code, and in countries with good employment laws and/or employers, extremely unproductive employees. And a whole new generation split between skillful and LLM users.
Which will increase heavily in the coming years. Blueskys "de"centralization is basically - use one of three instances, and probably pay for it sooner or later because it's fucking expensive.
Try testing. And be just as amazed as me on how stable even that is. It literally runs on my main server. The one that, if it goes down, everything of me is down. Yet, I never had problems, for years.
Apart from posts from lemmy instances not appearing as hashtags on mastodon (afaik), despite posts on mastodon appearing in the hastaged communities, not removing the #s and @s is also something I don't like about the current lemmy/mastodon implementations
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