yeah, you pretty much described the use case for k8s. It allows for rapid horizontal scaling, since you can easily throw another machine into the cluster if you need it. It mostly makes sense if you actually have multiple machines sitting idle to begin with, so this technology is mostly used in combination with managed quick rent servers (think AWS).

Beyond that, k8s is kinda fancy for cluster management, but if you don’t have a cluster you kinda don’t need it to begin with. Using simple kernel VMs (think Proxmox) or just Docker works better there. You could still go for k8s since it’s pretty much docker with cluster functionalities, just in case you want to expand eventually (sidenote, docker allows for cluster functionalities too, but they put a price on it, while k8s is open source iirc).

In that company I worked, k8s was considered but ultimately not implemented since it was considered a bit overkill. We already had everything set up with a bunch of bash scripts anyway, so it didn’t matter too greatly to begin with.

Just to add some more background on this: I used to work tightly with the Network Team in the website team of the biggest contender in its market (can’t disclose which one without people figuring out the company since the market is a bit niche).

We had 20’000 Users a day with a lot of images served.

The whole infrastructure consisted of 2 Firewall servers and the main DB (pSQL) on 2 self-hosted servers (think colo, it was sitting in a very remote location with 2 big diesel generators that would’ve ran the whole datacenter for a week iirc), with 14 Hetzner backend mirrors who ran the whole PHP code, served images and the angular + some weird custom Javascript. Scaling was done by simply throwing more Hetzners at it.

Given that Lemmy runs super performance efficient in comparison to 20 year deprecated PHP code that held together with ducttape, I feel like much less could make it work.

I’m glad you moved away from AWS, I wouldn’t even consider going for VM hosting and would’ve gone dedicated from the get go (or even self-hosting on a colo / using a good fiber connection at home, but I guess I live in a super privileged country when it comes to ISPs).

Isn’t k8s a bit overkill tho? Front-loaded caching seems to make sense, but a single 10gbit dedi could probably resolve the issue easier and simpler, couldn’t it?

I feel you, I’ve been super active in a niche community of a game ( /r/ADCmains from League), and even though it was a salty shitshow, I enjoyed it there.

I got some of that fixed by joining a discord, but it’s not the same :/

damn that’s pretty genius, although, doesn’t the tin foil or the pocket between the window heat up?

I don’t wanna be that kinda person, but it’s possible the owner had some visitation from the local authorities. It’s not uncommon to use a server for multiple things, and I could imagine that there might have been some… not so cool things on there

in case you didn’t know, sync for Lemmy is coming soon

The technology is open-source, the community is not. If we open the community to the corpos, we, as the community, will suddenly be part of the financial success of said corpos. They will take our data for their own use, and our interactions will make them money as well through engagement via their own interfaces.

They can use the Fediverse technology as much as they want, but I’m heavily against them using my personal data.

Black Mirror

I actually want this ngl haha

I’m missing pretty much all the “League of Legends Mains” communities, especially ADCMains and SamiraMains. They were one of my absolute go-to subreddits and the only reason I haven’t fully deleted my account yet.

Other then that it’s mostly niche things, especially very niche wholesome fem-oriented NSFW subs

Can you throw me a link? I kinda missed it and am not sure if the search function would even find it

unless a relay is used

What do you mean by that?

Jerboa still seems to work with this instance though

source: typing this comment on upgraded Jerboa

Edit: nevermind it crashes when I try to upvote a comment, of all things

what do you mean with “CLI based workflow”? If it’s about not using the gnome utilities like wifi, just check the arch wiki, pretty much everything is explained in there

I kinda like that idea, but wouldn’t that also cause a lot of divide and some sort of echo chambers to grow?

I know we all dream of having all our friends and family on the Fediverse

I honestly have to say that this isn’t remotely part of my dream. I couldn’t care less about the friends and families that are using facebook. They can contact me over E-Mail or over my phone. If they want to stay in touch even more, come join Discord or leave it be, simple as that.

If it wasn’t for those alternative social media, I wouldn’t even use social media at all.

Am I in the minority for thinking like that?

after a year? Mine lasted for 10 years lmao

I guess I was lucky

Had a blast in the past, until my GPU couldn’t handle the graphics anymore when I pushed myself to the competitive limits, and shortly thereafter they nerfed the Ares Ion (my absolute favorite ship) and my 10 year old Thrustmast TM16ks started to fall apart as well.

I’m heavily looking forward to getting back into it again once I can up my hardware :3

The issue is that content from any instance is physically hosted on the instance you access it from, which could lead to major legal consequences based on the data that might be hosted and the local laws.

If you want full control, set up your own instance. It’s what I’m gonna do as well once my financial situation goes beyond eating spaghetti all day

That’d have to be finetuned in the lemmy code and rolled out with a new version. Also, those algorithms are insanely complex, companies earn billions over those pieces of code.

Nevertheless, I’m certain someone’s already working on it cause open source rocks