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In the last week I have seen solar punk go down and aussie.zone owner talk about stepping away.

I've not seen two places down at once that has made it to my feed in the last 3 years.

Is the self hosting aspect of lemmy a detriment to the entire environment? Admins getting burnt out or the costs becoming too high is absolutely an issue.

I know this is kind of rambling but what would happen to Lemmy if the major hosters all went down, and we all spun up our own personal services?

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[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 63 points 2 days ago

Is self hosting a problem for Lemmy? Yes and no.

Self hosting for personal or small groups is a great feature. It allows communities to be independently responsible and has a relatively low barrier to entry.

I think Lemmy needs to have a certification process though. People not looking to self-hosting should be guided to instances that have documented availability, backup, recovery, and backend support.

You shouldn’t find out that your instance is running off an single drive in sombody’s mothers basement and they are out of town for 3 months by having problems logging in.

[-] jimmy90@lemmy.world 1 points 6 hours ago

only some clever p2p shinnanigans can save us now

and lemmy.world :)

[-] EnsignWashout@startrek.website 29 points 2 days ago

Yes. I think we just need a cultural norm where indie instances proudly proclaim their indie credentials and the associated risks, while large reliable servers share how they are backed up and managed, as well.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 11 points 2 days ago

The indie instances of today can become the large communities tomorrow.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 1 day ago

7514

Most things start small.

[-] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 hours ago

the Jen-Hsun Huang engineering building

Of course this dude has a building at Stanford named after him.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

The Nvidia guy?

checks Wikipedia

He got his grad degree at Stanford in 2010, and I bet that he probably donated a bunch of money to the university, probably paid for the thing's construction. My experience is that it's not uncommon for people who make it big out of tech universities to donate money to their alma mater, and the university often names something after them.

searches

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tech-news/jensen-huang-and-his-wife-lori-pledged-30-million-to-stanford-in-2010-the-university-opened-an-engineering-centre-housing-more-than-270-faculty-staff-and-students-with-workshops-for-building-prototypes/articleshow/134831471.cms

Jensen Huang and his wife Lori helped fund Stanford’s engineering centre with their $30 million donation. The university dedicated the Jen-Hsun Huang Engineering Center as a shared space for research, education and collaboration across disciplines.

The building houses more than 270 faculty members, staff and students, along with workshops for building prototypes and models.

The centre was established as part of Stanford’s Science and Engineering Quad, providing a shared space for students and researchers working across engineering, science and medicine. Huang, the co-founder and chief executive of Nvidia, received his master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford in 1992.

I'd guess that Nvidia itself might also have donated money:

The building features the 300-seat NVIDIA Auditorium and the Frederick Emmons Terman Engineering Library. The library was designed to support collaboration and help students and faculty access both digital and print research materials.

[-] diaphragmwp@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

And in this case become evil but that's not relevant.

[-] greybeard@feddit.online 2 points 1 day ago

I recently started donating to my instance to, hopefully, help them keep going. I can host my own instance, but I really don't want to have to do that. The PHP vulnerabilities are a good example, I spent most of my life having vulnerabilities like that be my problem, but boy was I glad PHP2SHELL was something I watched from the outside.

[-] Brkdncr@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Agreed. Once you let other people use your services you really need to think about things like nextgen firewalls and SoCaaS.

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