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Statistically speaking, you will either die by cancer, or you will die in an automotive accident.

As someone who hosts a small instance, nothing massive....

Honestly, nothing.

The only benefit I get- is full control over weather my instance is up or two. I know for absolute certain that my instance isn't going to randomly shutdown, and not come back online.

I also have the benefit of having a lot of control over how fast my instance is, and performance optimizations as needed to make it perform as I would like. As such, for me, the performance is outstanding.

With that said,

Basically everything else is downsides.

Having to proactively moderate content originating from your server, is a drag. The moderation tools in Lemmy are absolute dog-shit. Your only option here is to use either 3rd party tools (lemmy-helper), or to just run database queries.

PictRS just keeps growing and growing. pictures gets synced to every instance, and those take up room. Lots of room. PictRS has even less moderation tools then lemmy. If you want to make sure your user aren't uploading illicit/illegal content, is a major pain in the ass. My solution was to run a few scripts to fetch all of the content, and just run it through some AI scanning software to attempt to detect bad content. But, still, a pain in the ass.

Those attacks you read about here on lemmy world. Those happen to our smaller instances too. Every time you hear @ruud@lemmy.world doing an update here- we are also working on plans for updating the instance. Granted- my small user base makes these upgrades much easier and faster. But- we will have to do these updates. (At least on the plus side, my instances isn't constantly under a DOS attack, due to a disgruntled member, or due to a pissed off instance which was defederated)

And, lastly, one downside of lemmy- things don't really go away or get cleaned up. Your database and storage will continue to grow and grow, and grow. Again, to restate, There are basically no moderation or administration tools included with lemmy. You can see reports. You can ban users. And, you can delete posts. Thats about it.

There isn't an easy way to even list users, comments, posts, or activity happening on your instances.... through lemmy itself.

On top of those other issues, lemmy is very chatty, network wise.

Here are the incoming stats, from my "small" instance.

In terms of outgoing, it's very chatty there too. You will find all sorts of weird and random outbound DNS records.

tldr; Its prob not worth hosting your own instance, unless you just really like playing around with infrastructure, networking, databases, and digging through application issues.

Personally though- I enjoy the challenge, and that is one reason I keep doing it.

Nah, Reddit was kinda cool. Fuck u/spez instead.

I am going to guess- normal NFS is going to be faster...

There is really nothing about ceph that even remotely says, "Fast" to me.

One alternative might for you, might be minio, if object storage works for you. In my experience, it performs pretty well.

Yea... won is a matter of opinion.

Did their evaluation go up? SERIOUSLY doubt it.

Did they lose a chunk of userbase? Not as much as we would have hoped. However, quality != quantity. And, I am willing to bet they lost a more vocal part of their userbase.

In the end, they will prob still push for IPO. In the end Spez will still be swimming in dollars. But, not nearly as many dollars as he could have had....

Have you done any measurements of IOPs? Just curious to know.

I believe its a data-safety thing, similar to how ZFS's ZIL works.

That is, a write isn't completed until its actually written. In the case of consumer SSDs, this means, waiting for the write to complete. In the case of enterprise SSDs, this means the write-cache, (due to PLP, power loss protection).

With anything though, you can disable those safety features.

absurd overhead.

Actually a massive understatement. I threw together over 5 million IOPs worth of disks, to barely squeeze 100k IOPs out of the cluster! Its EXTREMELY inefficient, compared to.... well, pretty much any other option. I mean, writing encrypted zip files to SD card storage can be faster in some circumstances. lol

But, its reliable, fault-tolerant storage, which is instantly available(ie, no replication, syncing, etc).

Might be due to the load?

Or, perhaps cache setting. I think one of the issues the consumer drives have, is lack of PLP.

https://forum.proxmox.com/threads/vm-i-o-performance-with-ceph-storage.120929/

This particular thread had some really good info around half way down.

https://lists.ceph.io/hyperkitty/list/ceph-users@ceph.io/thread/2P5ROTWHR5Y2VWI6MA3IKQKUTC3WKYFB/

While, correct....

Doesn't actually answer anything about the question.

The question was, essentially, how is the fediverse different from usenet. Which- is indeed a valid question, since both are completely different technologies, which accomplish similar goals,

Love my bidet.

10/10 for squeaky clean buttholes.

A year or two back, I think I looked for information on them, and found a few people who disassembled them..... but, the hardware was pretty custom and specific for the application.

That being said, One of these days, I'll take apart one of the ones I have laying around here, and see if it might be possible to solder a esp32 somewhere on the board, to take control over some of the functionality.

Yea.

All isn't your personal feed.

Use "subscribed" and subscribe to stuff you want to see.

It's configurable.

I have mine configured to backup when I am charging and on wifi.

But, you can set it to run instantly.

I never used it on reddit, used rif instead.

But, I say, it seems to work extremely well so far. Works a lot better then the default pwa

Good is subjective, given I can see all of the same content, and more.

Also far fewer issues since I don't have to support 100k users here.

My company is the same way.

They realize many of us will leave, and they would lose a ton of money trying to replace us.

Commenting from it now.

It appears to work, thanks!

hardware is more generally available.

Yup, that is the one missing piece.

I have been using the new piper/wyoming stuff, and it actually works extremely nicely. I am very impressed with it.

I have been digging through the features and documentation- and I plan on giving it a try.

Photoprism locks user accounts behind a paid subscription.

We have been asking for a password for "private" photos, for a few years now.... and yea, still don't have that feature. I did notice photoprism jumped on the subscription train a while back, but, have not paid too much mind to it.

But, seeing the beautiful interface of this, I will be trying it.

I'll give credit- that actually has a really nice interface. Going to have to star that one, and keep an eye on it.

Documentation is very nice too.