Oh wow, that is an impressive feature set that is sorely missing. The mastadon integration is also pretty great which is missing from Lemmy. Would you recommend the piefed.social instance to try it out? Thanks again!

Thank you for your thoughtful reply and taking the time to do so. Yah I am currently running a lemmy instance that is working quite well with some minor issues (pict-rs not generating thumbnails from local files that are uploaded, and federating to certain instances like dbzero). So my curiosity is really from the perspective of is the grass really greener or are there significant benefits to starting up a new instance running PieFed as I assume there are no sane pathways to migrate from a lemmy instance to a PieFed one. Either way I appreciate your response, things to think about for $3000 Alex! 🤣

Ahh never heard of that! Thank you.

Slightly off topic, but is hosting a PieFed instance becoming the better option over a lemmy one these days? Any thoughts there?

Well it wasn’t clear what you were saying, sorry. Yah copy that, that could work, but why not just keep the vents on the seafloor…no boat is needed.

There’s this new thing called “boats”…

Yah sorry nobody serious is putting a data center on a floating boat/vessel. Maybe submerged, but not on the surface.

Yah but that requires coastal development or in the vicinity of the coast, with increasing sea level rise, that is just going to require these things to be made like giant doomsday bunkers able to survive a life extinguishing event. I still question the need for these data centers.

Yah its the whole move fast and break things mentality, and then ask for forgiveness later. Sometimes you don’t even have to ask for forgiveness…its fucked up.

They won’t be camouflaged for long once the pollution starts to kill off the vegetation…pretty sure we have seen this scenario exactly before in the 60s & 70s…

Ha thats good to know. I just retired several hgst sata drives that had greater than 85k hours on them, no errors in them, just thought I was pushing it and taking a chance. Thanks for sharing!

I have had luck with this ebay store…hoping this doesn’t blow up too much as the prices are still pretty reasonable. But just to note, these are used drives with 20K+ hours on them…SMART data provided for every drive sold. Good luck!

isellharddrives

I believe the correct term is “shite”, to be spoken with a thick accent lol