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So.... what makes this server different? :) (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by excelsias@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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Title says it all!? I'm a reddit refuge and picked this instance because it's A) Canadian (I'm in MN, so consider myself an honorary Canadian), and B) The clean energy thing.

Applied to Beehaw but never heard back. Dittos on Lemmy.ML!

So hoping this is going to be a great "home" away from Reddit for the foreseeable future.

Cheers, and well done on the instance, admins!

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[–] ShadowAether@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

True, it's feasible to be an active mod when the communities are small but you'd pretty quickly need to bring in other mods if they start growing too big. It's certainly nice to have smaller communities around for some topics but for some to function well, they do kind of need a certain amount of active users. I know there's some concern about too few servers that have all the large communities as well.

I think as more people are intrested in the project, more features will get added eventually.

? I though cloudflare disabled domain fronting?

[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 2 points 2 years ago

Back before centralization I'd run communities up to 10k with less than 5 mods while doing physical events and meets (those I rounded up more help). You need more for bigger but really, if the fediverse was a bunch of smaller <10k communities power balance across the network would be better. Ideally you want a diverse network that avoids consolidation.

As for CF, thats pretty much the entire service. They now have a full zero trust setup too so you can put your entire backoffice infra in the loop if you want. I've served a number of sites in the 50k uniques range from this and simple static file servers for a number of apps including live data feeds. Had to bump to the $20 a month plan during a peak season but mostly i get by on the free stuff.