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So admins, hows your instances looking today? (piefed.social)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Since AWS is still having issues, I was wondering how the fediverse is? How are you all fairing this fine Monday?

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[–] 32 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Itd be idiotic to host a fediverse instance on big cloud providers.

care about privacy and security? dont host on AWS

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I hope people aren't under the impression that Lemmy is about privacy.

    Arguably it's even less private than Reddit, as at least Reddit has some sort of controls on who can access your data i.e. whoever pays.

    But on Lemmy, that's free with federation. Maybe not the same granular tracking data, but enough of users personal data is available as to not consider Lemmy to be a privacy centric service.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Reddit has some sort of controls on who can access your data

    What data?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I never even heard of AWS before today. What is it?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    It's called amazon web services.

    In short there's 3 major cloud providers

    Amazon Web Services

    Google Cloud Platform

    Microsoft Azure

    All 3 basically do the same thing, real simplified version of it. it's kind of a giant pool of server resources that are leased to you by demand. So say if you are netflix and have 100 million people watching the day a new series drops, but then only have 1 million watching tuesday night, they pay based on how much is currently being used, rather than having to set everything to handle peak, but be idle 90% of the time.

    again yeah it's expensive for most purposes... and one can argue how bad it is on the whole, but it is kind of what most companies have been using for a lot of things for the last 15 years.

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