As folks might know, I #MastoAdmin the #FediverseAU #Mastodon instance, which is a closed (must be approved) instance only for university and research group accounts in Australia / Oceania - because they're typically brand accounts and don't have a natural home in AU.

Yesterday I upgraded the storage for this Mastodon instance, and placed it on a #DigitalOcean #CDN.

If you're interested in this sort of thing, you can see the change plan here - because documentation is both helpful in the moment, and a good reference for others.

https://bit.ly/fediverseau-410-413-cdn-upgrade-plan

Reddit's CEO is attacking Reddit moderators, calling them spoiled "landed gentry" who are messing up his service ...

... when in reality Reddit mods do over $3.4 million in free labor annually, as per a recent scholarly estimate

And that's a lowballed, conservative estimate

My essay on it here: https://clivethompson.medium.com/reddit-moderators-do-over-3-4-million-in-free-labor-every-year-d3571235c32c

A "friend" link in case you're not a Medium subscriber: https://clivethompson.medium.com/reddit-moderators-do-over-3-4-million-in-free-labor-every-year-d3571235c32c?sk=8526a9c3671885cce45a2bd3d1e36b82

Finally, I took a look at NixOS, and the Nix package manager! And while I was very skeptical at first, after a week of use, it’s clear that this is an insanely powerful distribution, that is now at the very top of my list to replace Fedora on my editing rig.

Let’s see why, how it works, and why it’s so good, even though it won’t be for everyone:

https://youtu.be/DMQWirkx5EY

#Linux #OpenSource #NixOS

@nixos_org

✨ We love to see the #Lemmy + #Kbin growth!

We made a special page on fediDB to make it easier to track growth 🚀

https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

Long live the fediverse ❤️

Every time you hear the Reddit CEO talking about how they need to become profitable, remember they raised $250m and then spent the last couple years building this: https://nft.reddit.com

#reddit #HuffmanOut