One of the things that I feel isn’t being thought about much, is that it isn’t just Meta’s ideology and policies that will harm smaller instances and the fediverse itself; but the volume of data that their userbase will generate.

For smaller instances like mine running on six vcores, 4GB of memory, 512GB storage and a 120Mbps network…I feel like all it would take is a handful of users federating with them and the data flow alone would destroy our resources at the network if not disk level.

No, I don’t plan on allowing my instance to see or interact with theirs; but the point applies to all small instances and part time hobby servers. We don’t have the means to take on the data they could throw out into the federated network.

I grew up on well water and was used to drinking from the garden hose when working out in the yard; but thats southern US for ya.

Now days, jus fill a bottle from the tap and don’t really put much thought to it.

I can’t remember the name of the game, but there was this flash powered tank game that I spent hours on during middle school. Oh, and interactive buddy…that game was a trip with its scripting engine!