Reddit and Twitter are multimillion dollar enterprises
I’m just some fool who rents a little virtual server so I can help people use the fediverse
I mean I’m not even an IT guy by trade (just by hobby) - I’m a truck driver.
I cannot express my appreciation, and dude I assure you, you got bigger balls than elon’s chest
It’s a good thing it’s a virtual server. I can’t imagine the issues you would have if you hosted it from the back of your truck.
Hosting from the back of a truck would be a technological marvel in its own right.
It sounds like the plot of an action movie.
“We have to keep this truck above 50mph at all cost”
“OMG, IS IT GONNA EXPLODE?!”
“Oh no much worse. It’ll ruin my server uptime stat.”
It’s possible, but just expensive and unreliable mainly due to internet connection/bandwidth. Depending on where you are you can either go with a sim card or Elon’s space junk but the connection would be unreliable and slow.
Sat internet would be the solution. Just costs a lot.
Lmao I’m home every night now (local)
I do host some things at my house, but just for personal use. I don’t need a public site running on my home network.
that’s about unrelated as I can think
awesome, I love technology accessibility
To be fair I’m also a huge fucking nerd
You’re in the wrong field, my man. I sit at a chair 60 hours a week staring into a empty void that is my monitor. Wait, maybe we are not really that different after all.
I just really don’t know how to get in, while living in central Florida, with no degree, while not taking a pay cut which I can’t afford as the sole earner in my household :/
If you’re thinking about shifting careers, I’ve been there. I started as a self-learner with no degree, before the ease of joining a freelance service was a thing. My starting point was a small firm where I did tech support for the coders. I got involved in automation projects and gradually built trust by proving I could deliver what I promised.
I think that the core principles I learned remain valid today: Learn by doing projects, learn in public, and be patient.
If I was starting again, and if I didn’t have a job next to the right people, I’d probably do the following. Start with creating useful projects. Treat these as opportunities to learn and simulate real job conditions. If your work involves coding, share it on GitHub. If it’s about building infrastructure, treat it as Infrastructure as Code and share it on GitHub. If it’s not code-related, or even if it is, document your work and what you’ve learned on a blog.
Regardless of your project’s nature, make sure to record your learnings and pass on your knowledge. It helps reinforce your understanding and it gives you something to point to during interviews.
My dude, if you’re renting and running a VPS you’re an IT guy.
truck drivers are basically IT anyways /j
It isn’t double standards, it’s patience for a fledgling replacement platform that seeks to free you from being a commodity to be exploited and sold, and lack of patience for the established, exclusively profit hungry platforms that continue to make your experience worse and disrespect you, solely to squeeze a few extra pennies out of you to meet insatiable, unquenchable growth/metastasis expectations.
It’s the difference between yelling at a professional pickpocket trying to rob you and a kid who is screwing up trying to help you. Resources matter, but more importantly, motivations matter.
I DO assume to have double standards. Of course they’re not the same for the nonprofit that’s trying to protect my privacy than for the company that’s trying to sell it
It makes sense! Lemmy servers are new and still gaining stability. You’re also not paying (not even with your data) so you can be more forgiving
Where’s the Lamb SOURCE CODE !?
one of these is making a profit off of you, the other is a community tended commons. there is no comparison.
They are all donkeys. I don’t discriminate.
A big part of the fediverse is that it’s decentralized, one server going down doesn’t mean you can’t see anything, the rest of the network still exists and there are still people using that.
