Pretty great on the web browser front-end to be honest - haven’t had an issue when I have used it on my phone. Not sure about the app side of things since I’ve been trying to limit my doom scrolling to when I’m at a computer

Fired up a FreshRSS instance for myself when the reddit API notifications came about. Reminds me of my Google Reader days - quite happy with it thus far. Any of the decent quality news sites seem to have an RSS option, at least in my experience so far.

I’ve been happy with Bitwarden thus far. Used Lastpass back in the day, but migrated over when the renewal prices started creeping up.

Surprised it’s not mentioned here, but Bzflag.

Super fun tank shooter game that doesn’t take much to run, and reminds me of a cross between the very old bolo game and Mario kart’s battle mode.

Yeah - this was a tad annoying at work today. Thank god for terraform if outages had become more severe

Ran it around Christmas - was still an intense resource hog. Lots of features and great for corps, but too much otherwise

I just run a searxng instance for myself. Fetches from multiple sources.

I’ve heard good things about kagi, but it does require paying for (though you can try out a free tier to see if it’ll work for you)

I mean, it’s a message board. It’s just unknown actors running the servers, but everything is public anyway so post accordingly.

Reddit was just controlled by a corporation is the only real difference.

Yeah Reddit would make an excellent private company with the right owner and likely some re-structuring, but as a public company ooh boy.

Outside some niche subs I’m not on there more than once a day just to see if my lemmy subs missed something, and it’s my last form of social media outside discord/matrix, so if lemmy does take off enough I’ll probably only be there for the odd technical search, which I suspect lemmy will take care of in time.

Probably restrict them more before IPO would be my guess

This is also very true. Tech sector has been doing layoffs and admittingly these ones are pretty tiny in comparison to some other places, which is another factor why I think there will be more. And burning cash is quite true, which is part of why their investors are probably pushing hard for them to be ready for an IPO.

Initial Public Offer. Basically, the company going public on the stock market. They tend to try and look “shiny” before going public to make them attractive to buyers who want to make money from investing into the company.

In my experience (from working a place that has done this) they will do some waves of layoffs and make some operational budget cuts, as well as sometimes freeze some capex spending so the books look juicier. This includes things that may cause long-term harm, for short ish (under a year) gain.

Script is pretty similar with most companies that do this in tech, with predictable results.

Ahh here it comes. Expect more - IPO layoffs (from personal experience) are definitely a thing

The only two I am aware of that are actually good are Teksavvy and SaskTel. But, Teksavvy is just a reseller, and SaskTel is a crown corporation only available in Sask. Not sure about the smaller mobile providers anymore - there have been too many buyouts for me to keep track of.

That’s my disappointment as well! I’ve done k3s on a droplet, and it was nice, but I’d like to handover the control plane to a cloud provider when I’m experimenting without burning my wallet.

The good news is instances that were subbed to said dead instances will still have the content on them. So everything will be archived by the nature of the federated protocols

It’s also nice to pay for not having to deal with the hardware, and to also have the hidden costs go away (ie, electricity)

Joe’s datacenter & hetzner server auctions are good deals if you’ve got bad internet and want to run your own multiple smaller VMs! Depending on latency in the case of hetzner.

But yeah, hosting at home is always great. I did it for years, but electricity prices began creeping up and I got tired of the maintenance

Intel NUC with a hard drive for local stuff (*arrs, jellyfin), but nowadays because I plan to go back to full-time motorhoming I fire up stuff on DO, hetzner, AWS, GCS, etc as required. At the moment just a Lemmy and general purpose instance, but I do pop up the odd gameserver I’ve dockerized on one of these services while playing with friends

Exacty. Even a couple thousand new users out of reddits millions make a huge difference