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The technical ramblings of Alaric Snell-Pym - https://snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/

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dansup , to random
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The challenge with a federated DeviantArt platform will be payments, if they can offload that to a 3rd party by allowing users to add links to the store, it could work IMO

Otherwise, each instance would have to host their own Stripe payments account, and other complexities

Not to mention, giving Apple/Google Play 30% of the cut

In @pixelfed, we're handling this by allowing users to add links to specific items that redirect to 3rd party platforms

We can do this, watch me 😎

#notJustInstagram

kitten_tech ,
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@dansup @pixelfed I'm sad cryptocurrencies didn't work out, this is the sort of thing I was hoping they'd fix...

kitten_tech ,
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@dashrandom @dansup @pixelfed nano, avalanche, and IIRC another have no fees and quick transactions and no wasteful mining; those technical problems have been solved, but nobody cares because the economics have been so thoroughly corrupted! I'm kinda hoping that something might arise that's just for fun and showing content creators you like them or something, so it actually has a use of its own rather than being defined by its dollar worth on exchanges and all that...

appassionato , to palestine group
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People in Gaza are drained, frustrated and exhausted. They have been displaced more than five or six times. There's a family that literally had to evacuate nine times.

People are tired of being constantly displaced. They’re also feeling hopeless because they know even being evacuated from one place to another does not guarantee they’re going to escape the Israeli air raids.

@palestine

kitten_tech ,
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@appassionato @palestine don't underestimate how awful it must be to be evacuated. To lose your home, your job, any possessions you can't carry, your pets, the place where you got married; to lose friends, to take your children away from their friends. Even without all the death, that alone is horrible.

datarama , to random
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Where do people who self-host their websites, mastodon instances etc. actually host things these days?

(Hetzner are villains now, and so are DigitalOcean I gather?)

kitten_tech ,
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@datarama my hosting is done on my own hardware in my house on a business grade FTTC broadband connection with a static IP from @aaisp , but this involved a lot of custom setup on my part to make a datacentre-like environment at home! I need some small VPSes, though, for backup NS/MX, so I'm interested to hear what you find...

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