I saw it in a post about people getting temp bans for simply stating that EU allies would be right to defend Greenland in case of military action. Might just have been one of several grievances with Reddit at the moment though
You say that as if we have a choice
I have indeed seen that option, and I think I will eventually, I just have some things I want to sort out first. Like making sure I have Rules and Policies setup, that Topics are set up, and I have migrated to more proper hosting (at least to the point where I can scale out from a single server with little to no downtime).
When you've had enough of the Huskys shit?
Alright, lets do this.
I have been playing around with setting up my own little PieFed instance: https://nord.red, the one I’m posting from now. Set it up in the weekend and I’m kind of surprised how smooth the process was.
Why? Mostly for fun, but also because I feel like I would like to contribute what I can to there being non-American alternatives to Social media available, especially with the current climate and the appearance of increased censorship on Reddit. With about a decade of experience in systems administration and DevOps, and with a decent amount of free cash flow I thought perhaps this is something to try out and see where it leads.
I don't have any specific goal other than it being a "Nordic Reddit" and a gateway to the fediverse.. but I know there are already at least feddit.nu and feddit.dk (and probably for Norway and Finland as well) and I don't want to fracture a already small communities.
For now the setup is a bit experimental, as in its completely dependent on a single computer in perhaps non-ideal conditions… but I do have a pretty solid plan for scaling it up (i. e. getting hosts from Hetzner in Finland)
Should I commit to this? I dunno, probably not as I have like 2 weeks of experience of the Fediverse 😆
Yeah, my first thought was that it’s a reference to how facism has grown by allowing people to discuss it in anonymous echo chambers.
Don’t think crypto is the solution to replacing payment processors. The distributed networks is going to have enormous difficulty scaling to even a fraction of the number of card payments processed each day.