Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

@steeph Yes!

@typhlosion Should standardize "stackable" to mean "on top of another" and "nestable" to mean "storeable inside of another"

@wheeze_NL Yep, will give that a shot. Thanks!

@wheeze_NL Yep I get the same

@wheeze_NL Any idea what might cause it?

@julia@eepy.moe In a previous life, I ran a then-highly-current niche news site that briefly popped into the Alexa "top 100 most popular domains on the web" list (when that still existed...), alongside the big names you've definitely heard of. For a while it was the canonical news source for that topic for pretty much every journalist, and many linked back.

It was a pile of hastily put-together garbage PHP on a $5/month VPS running lighttpd, with 512MB, *maybe* 1GB of RAM? It had some incredibly rudimentary and generic caching. It got a bit slow but never broke. Although the web in general had way less users back then, it absolutely was under high load.

I continue to be baffled by how some people seem to think that you just *need* a whole fucking Kubernetes cluster of dedicated hardware to serve a couple of a hits a second. I promise that you only need a tiny fragment of that hardware if you do literally any optimization at all and don't expect sub-ms response times.

@bellitre @aral Sort of, but not exactly. It's about how "nice" people (that specific term) are usually the ones looking away and doing nothing.

They're the people that are sometimes considered "good", by people with an oversimplified view of "good" and "bad" (which is mostly just about "are they nice to me" and not about "are they doing good to others").

@bellitre @aral

(I did not notice the age of the post, sorry.)

I agree that 'good' and 'bad' are not a property of people themselves, and that it's about the choices they make.

The bit I had a problem with in your comment, was mainly the "people lucky to be more adapted" part, because it makes it sound like there's no responsibility to change, you just have to be lucky to 'fit in' or not. But you *do* have a responsibility towards others to do the best you can, whether or not that's the "normal" thing in a society.

Otherwise, I think we agree.

@rail_ The standard policy seems to be to 'retire' a TLD 5 years after country disappearance; wonder if it'll be adjusted here

@rail_ Not quite happy about the outcome of the underlying political process, though. Seems the Chagossians are *still* not recognized in that process...

@indigotyrian@akko.elysium.gay Thanks, that's very helpful! This broadly seems to match my impressions from afar (and confirms some of the concerns I had early on), but I was missing a lot of details.

One thing I'm curious to hear more about is that parasocial relationship issue, especially the "telling everyone to follow them" - could you think of circumstances where this could have worked out well (no/different business model, smaller community, something else), or do you feel that it was just fundamentally doomed to result in an unhealthy dynamic no matter what else they changed?