I already owned the domain and have access to a server with more than enough resources, so it didn't have a downside to me.
Upside, I don't really have to worry about anyone else's federation choices. Undesirable content like loli/shouta stuff doesn't appear at all, because I'm basically the only user and don't subscribe to anywhere that exists so it doesn't federate to me anyway. My instance never lags because nobody but me uses it. Sometimes it misses comments through federation from overloaded instances, but it seems like the newer version of Lemmy has helped that greatly.
They'll be devastated when they find out my closed instance with 2 users, 1 of which is inactive, also pre-emptively de-federated them. I shudder to think they'll ever recover.
Makes me glad I'm a millennial and had to deal with the times when technology wasn't so "nice" to you. When Windows would let you delete system32 with less hoops, random websites could drive-by malware into your machine, and you could tangibly customize your OS to look completely different.
Late 90s/early 00s computing really gave opportunities to get good at understanding what your computer did, scrutinize when downloading random programs, and made you think about what you were clicking on a little bit if you didn't want to get a virus.
It's not just about personal data. But what will definitely happen is they're going to attempt an Embrace, Extend, Extinguish. They'll embrace the fediverse, then they'll add their own features on top on their platform without giving back to the wider community. Then, when they leech as many people to their platform as they can from the rest of the Fediverse after making open projects struggle to keep up, they'll drop it and kill the rest of the network in the process.
The difficult part about that is, the way Lemmy is designed to easily integrate any custom client also allows bots to be made even easier. Only way to really do it would be by restricting the API, and with it, a lot of the freedoms of Lemmy.
That'd be good for an indie game, but for a AAA, free to play Halo game? That's almost nobody compared to what they should be pulling. BF 2042 is beating it, even if by a slim margin, and it wasn't even made free.
Any VPS provider worth their salt will have corporate clients with data far more valuable than a random person's vacation photos. So they probably don't want anything to do with that data unless it brings them legal trouble. Plus, not knowing can help shield them from all sorts of liabilities.
I was going to leave a snarky comment about the game not being all that old, but then I double checked the release date and saw it was 11 9 years ago. Now I just feel old and I can't even really make that snarky comment.
Basically: The game is Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. For those not aware of how the game works, it operates in turns, with every character and monster getting 100 turns to perform actions before the other creatures in the game get theirs. Each action takes a set amount of turns, and you can take actions until your 100 turns are used. So walking a tile might take 80 turns, and running that same tile 40, giving you an extra tile before the other creatures get to go.
What happened here is, a commit changed how limb breaks affect turns, but didn't put a maximum cap. Meaning that players would spend 0 turns moving. If you don't spend any turns, other things in the game never get theirs. In other words, time stops for everyone but you.
They don't want content from that website on their instance, and they're an admin, if not owner of it. Part of the beauty of the fediverse is, you get to run your own place and have your own rules. I can't really fault him for that.
From what I read, it also requires Secure Boot to be enabled. I played the game for 90 minutes before reading about the anti-cheat change, fortunately I didn't hit 2 hours and took a refund.
Unfortunately, from what I'm seeing in a lot of subs, it's working. You do have protests from places like r/aww and r/pics doing the John Oliver thing, and r/Steam posting about literal steam. But it seems like on the large, threats of people losing their ability to give Reddit free labor is working to get subs back open.
Edit: r/pics changed, they've chosen total anarchy.
The arguments for are varied. I don't have to worry about any admins making decisions on federation, I can federate (or not) however I please. I have my own space that I can do what I want with in a familiar format, and I can make my username Jamie without it being taken.
After almost 24 hours, coming up on 662MB of images, and 371MB for the postegres database. Though, I could see the numbers fluctuating depending on how much stuff you're subscribed to. I'm currently subscribed to 31 communities, most of them fairly large.
My Lemmy instance is currently occupying about 350MB of RAM, but you can round that up to 400MB. A lot less than the 4GB for KBin.Technically it's a dual user instance now, since a friend wanted to join it and I said sure.
Mine still has 4 videos per row on my 1080p monitor. Maybe you got forcibly opped into a test? Did you make sure that you weren't zoomed in or anything?
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I already owned the domain and have access to a server with more than enough resources, so it didn't have a downside to me.
Upside, I don't really have to worry about anyone else's federation choices. Undesirable content like loli/shouta stuff doesn't appear at all, because I'm basically the only user and don't subscribe to anywhere that exists so it doesn't federate to me anyway. My instance never lags because nobody but me uses it. Sometimes it misses comments through federation from overloaded instances, but it seems like the newer version of Lemmy has helped that greatly.