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   Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:21:57 JST Fish of Rage

   Reminder that if you are posting on the Fediverse, decentralization is massively more energy wasteful than using a centralized platform like X.

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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:25:45 JST Fish of Rage

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     • cool_boy_mew
     @coolboymew yes, imagine having to do TLS negotiation and shooting traffic across the entire Internet between hundreds of general-purpose servers instead of having a server farm full of specialized low power machines that are communicating over a crossbar or a hop or two on a local network.
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:25:46 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @sun is it?
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:28:46 JST lainy

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     @sun if you use decentralized media you don’t care about the poorest of the poor in the global south
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     kochlé (cohle@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:29:02 JST kochlé

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     @sun I guess we need post rationing to conserve energy. Everyone gets 10 posts and post interactions per day. It's the only way to save the planet.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:30:54 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @sun To be honest I'd quite wonder, like remember X isn't a single server, so on a technical and energy usage level I'd expect it to be quite comparable. (Although mastodon seems horribly inefficient)
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:31:49 JST Fish of Rage

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan I address this further down, it's comparable but still way more efficient because on the Fediverse you maximize distrust between nodes and have to account for that.
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:33:55 JST Fish of Rage

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan so like if you go into a Google datacenter, they still do TLS between individual machines, as a direct result of resisting NSA spying when the USG was breaking into and exfiltrating data from their physical datacenters. But Google/AWS also runs custom hardware that is way more energy efficient than like Hetzner.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:34:14 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @sun Which for X would be redundancy?
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:35:24 JST Fish of Rage

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan X uses more electricity but per person it's probably way lower than a Fediverse person if you lump together everyone and divide by how much computing is done
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:40:54 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @sun I'd kind of doubt the efficient hardware claim, otherwise there would be Google/AWS-like servers being sold, or even dedicated hardware like boards inside of NAS being actually more than general purpose SoC + storage controller.
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:42:36 JST Fish of Rage

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan the hardware is proprietary and they recycle it. amazon intel cpus are often even private runs specifically for them designed to be more efficient.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:45:28 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @sun At least I see the custom hardware more as like controlling their stack down to the hardware so it's easier to manage (specially with vendor BMCs being a PITA) and evolve, rather than about efficiency.
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     NETZSPHAERE DIES GOD LAUGHS (emoisdeadandsoami@mastodon.bv.linksjugend-solid.de)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:50:31 JST NETZSPHAERE DIES GOD LAUGHS

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @sun @lanodan also Google has pretty decent heat re-use while usual or small-scale servers just treat heat as a nuisance

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     meeper@mai.waifuism.life's status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:52:44 JST meeper

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @sun@shitposter.world @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me honestly a teitter like every post is cached architecture is kinda disingenous for federated networks (and in general tbh?, posts should be discarded after a while like irc imo unless explicitly archived

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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:52:55 JST Fish of Rage

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     • meeper
     @meeper @lanodan there is some work being done on this to standardize expiring posts
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     meeper@mai.waifuism.life's status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:54:44 JST meeper

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @sun@shitposter.world @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me honestly think activity pub fediverse is a dead end has the same kind of problems with wayland but a much worse core architecture

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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 01:54:44 JST Fish of Rage

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     • meeper
     @meeper @lanodan it's very bad and I don't recommend it anymore. All my friends are on here but unfortunately also a ton of people I realized I hate sharing reality with
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:01:30 JST Fish of Rage

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • meeper
     @meeper @lanodan Fediverse active users is going down and BlueSky is sucking all the enthusiasm out of the room for itself. BlueSky's decentralization is a giant sham but the way it's built is better for people that want strong moderation, Fedi is just architecturally NEVER going to be good at that. I wonder if in a few years we'll be back to 2016 levels of use. Honestly that might make it tolerable again for me. Nothing sufficiently decentralized is really on the horizon to replace Fedi because of the inherent problems. You could solve a ton of problems by replacing ActivityPub with something else but a bunch of problems are just baked into decentralization and normies are never going to want to come here.
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     meeper@mai.waifuism.life's status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:01:31 JST meeper

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @sun@shitposter.world @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me hopefully someone comes out of the blue and makes something better ig.Fedi being open at least allows basic interoperability to be feasible giving a transition course and we can try a better architectute for communication (like one more fundamentally based on groups and more like a discord chat)

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:03:18 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • meeper
     @meeper @sun So far none of the ones I've seen could offer any transition from the Fediverse, so none of them are particularly interesting.
     It's like arguing about IRC vs. XMPP vs. Matrix and I just don't see the point, they're too different to ever realistically merge, even accounts can't be.
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     Lina Inver?e (lina@eientei.org)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:04:41 JST Lina Inver?e

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     • meeper
     @sun @meeper @lanodan >Fediverse active users is going down
     GOOD
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     Sally (sally@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:04:43 JST Sally

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     • meeper
     @sun
     @meeper @lanodan
     
     What the Twitter crowd sees as problems, us non-psyopped folk see as features.
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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:17:04 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     • Sally
     @sally @meeper @sun Even regardless of whatever political alignments, I don't think I would go back to centralised social networks.
     
     It's like if all the cafe/bars/… in the area were managed by the same bloke instead of being independent.
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     Sally (sally@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:17:05 JST Sally

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     • meeper
     @sun
     @meeper @lanodan
     
     
     > but the way it's built is better for people that want strong moderation
     
     The way it's built is that if you make a post saying I don't like <minority> you get permabanned, but advocating murdering people that infringes copyright laws is cool and good.
     
     Strong moderation for thee but not for me, because I'm from the tooth paste flag crowd, a jew or whatever other bullshit minority they shield behind.
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     Sally (sally@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:24:22 JST Sally

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     • meeper
     @lanodan
     @meeper @sun
     
     
     There's nothing good about them, they've raised a generation of NPCs specifically brainwashed to work inside centralized, corporate and proprietary social media, Bluesky is doing exactly that as well.
     
     There's three kinds of people in Bluesky, those that do nothing more than shill the platform 24/7 like braindead cryptobros, those american Twitter leftist degenerates that say the most unhinged, batshit insane take about whatever, and those that are both. They keep bitching about Twitter being full of bigot NPCs, yet they're exactly the same breed on the opposite side of the spectrum, being stuck in a room with freaks blinds your judgement.
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     x (ten@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 02:36:29 JST x

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     • meeper
     @sun @meeper @lanodan p2poids will never have nice things
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 11:22:50 JST Fish of Rage

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     • Ignas Kiela
     @ignaloidas @lanodan For the CPUs I am not sure everything they do but I do know that they lie about their capabilities and so the motherboard has to be custom to override it. As for the Google mobos yeah nobody outside the Google datacenters can run something so specially designed, and for the AWS ones, they have special proprietary key management hardware.
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     Ignas Kiela (ignaloidas@not.acu.lt)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 11:22:52 JST Ignas Kiela

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @sun@shitposter.world @lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me AFAIK while they do get some custom SKUs, it's usually just simple tweaks on core count, frequency and the like, and not new silicon

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     Account: Computers (pro@mu.zaitcev.nu)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 11:22:58 JST Account: Computers

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     • meeper
     @sun @meeper @lanodan So to me you're saying that Fedi and AP follow the trajectory of RSS.
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     Fish of Rage (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 11:30:28 JST Fish of Rage

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     • meeper
     @pro @meeper @lanodan even worse
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     Fediverse Contractor (bot@seal.cafe)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 11:31:53 JST Fediverse Contractor

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
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     • meeper
     It's almost like fedi is a pos idk
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 11:36:03 JST feld

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:
     @lanodan @sun if every server has its own power supply, it's definitely less efficient than a rack of servers powered by a shared DC bus bar
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     チャノさん (japananon@mitra.anon-kenkai.com)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 11:41:46 JST チャノさん

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     @sun Still worth it.

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