is anyone aware of metrics about the longevity of Fediverse instances by size? I read a diatribe today about how Lemmy/threadiverse is too centralized, lobbying for people to participate in communities on smaller instances. Itβs also a common bit of advice given on places like Reddit that people should join small mastodon instances or self host. I think at some level the mastodon guidance has disenfranchised a lot of people who ended up on instances that went belly up, many of which were smaller. But not exclusively so. I think itβs a lot more problematic in the threadiverse for a few reasons: first, most of the software does not permit account migration; second, when the instance that a community resides on goes away, that community effectively goes away along with the future ability to participate in it. Said another way, I think threadiverse users have a vested interest in picking both instances and communities hosted on instances that have some staying power, at least with how things work today. Perhaps there are better ways to structure things so there is much less reliance on an instance, but that clearly is not the case today.
I have this intuition that small instances tend to be set up as somewhat noncommittal hobby projects. Now Iβm not advocating that things should be more centralized, just that the way things are seem to create a lot of challenges for the lay person who just wants to use the threadiverse and have it just work.
Anyhow, thatβs just todayβs shower thought.
Convo.casa/infosec.space/infosec.exchange upgrades complete. That took longer than normal due to a lot more changes that I had to orchestrate. Fedia.io is still down while it replicates 1TB of data to another server.
Defensive Security Podcast EpisodeΒ 313
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Observation from spending time in a gym in 2025: gym equipment will start being built with phone/camera holders/mounts that have an optimal angle and view of the user so they can record or stream themselves working out. I feel like I need to file a patent.
I really donβt understand the push to for a computer replicate what goes on in the human brain. I mean, I know what goes on in mine and it just seems ill advised for a computer to be thinking those thoughts.
Fireworks shouldnβt be the only thing exploding this independence Day! Donβt forget to push your code to prod on your way out the door for the long weekend.
Defensive Security Podcast EpisodeΒ 312
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