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  • that all depends on the instance. small does not mean it will go away. for example my instance is topical. by design, even if it gets "popular" it has some in-built upper limits and if the mass grows beyond them it means I can likely get help paying for the next steps up.

    just because an instance is big does not mean its necessarily safe or stable, first its imporant to note that large instances have scaling issues as the deployment for the system is not ready to scale that way, instead they need to deploy to every bigger servers in an inefficient manner or spend a ton of time rolling bespoke deploys. these big servers are just a few volunteers. some big instances are managed by 1-4 technical people, the same numbers a small instance has.

    Also it costs money to run large scaled systems, you can run an instance for you and some friends for nearly free if you find a deal and only a few bucks a month if you dont.

    So big instance/ small instance does not mean much with stability, they both have thier issues. Something to note, smaller instances are MUCH easier to run.

  • smaller instances give you more control over your feed generally but discovery is on you.

    i do expect better filters and controls in the future

  • aside from misinfo this is more of why they want to moderate some responses, someone is going to blow themselves up using a recipe it gives them

  • its interesting but it tells us what we already know about subjects with material that is incomplete.

  • pretty sure federation protocol is looking for

    <NAME>

    :

    <PORT>

    i haven't seen instances use a sub-directory

  • yes you can use the same domain, but you may need different subdomains for everything to work happily.

  • reddit search was never not broken

  • SPE shows exactly how when you alter a worldview how that person changes. It was extreme and unintended but it showed how powerful it can be when the subjects willingly accept the game.

    subliminal marketing in the form of showing single image frames was debuked, thats one of many techniques.

  • printed in the early 80s, written by the man who is considered the grandfather of the current Russian' govt's ideology and "plan"

    he has the ear of putin, or did.

  • there were a number of university experiments on human choice often dealing with a disparity of information between the parties.

    What was learned by the US government in its testing was also known. The reality is experiments like these were done very heavily up until the 60's with the vast majority getting nixed by the early-to-late 70s

    this coincides also with our release of mental patients which were as much experiment subjects as they were patients. We were mapping out people's behavior to information stimulus for most of the 20th century.

    the programs were all stopped but the information continued on and is used in many strata of our lives.

    https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0by2ybb/mk-ultra-the-cia-s-secret-pursuit-of-mind-control-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment

    Subliminal Marketing (one of many techniques) is banned however use of the technique in other mediums is not. https://smallbusiness.chron.com/laws-subliminal-marketing-69892.html

    With regards to international actors and thier domestic collaborators, check into Foundations of Geopolitics. Its a playbook being followed.

  • :coughs on meta-dust:

  • governments need to take seriously what we are looking at in the next 40 years. There IS going to be less work, and less need for it. We can no longer play a game of work = virtue and that you must work to live.

    If we fail to address this we will be complicit in a slow genocide

  • Less social media IMO, more the weaponization of techniques first researched in the 60s-80s made real and pushed via automaton to all corners of the public internet.

    The reason you become vulnerable is because you abdicate control (most had no idea) of your feed to providers that own domain names.

    This was a co-option of how the internet worked previously.

  • def a function of volume, smaller instances are not seeing this particular error