Does anyone know the history of that Gorf site? Looks very small and has a bunch of former gabbers joining and creating groups. Wondering when it was created and if we will be welcome there.
I really miss the groups. Gorf now has Victory Gardens and Backyard Chickens but virtually no members.
I think it's being worked on, it's just not like a high priority for the Soapbox developers. I would like to see that feature be brought to Soapbox some day.
@TinyHouse4Life@Anon_Z@matty the problem with self destruct posts on the fediverse is they aren't truly self destruct. the nature of the fediverse means that it replicates your post to dozens of thousands of servers and gets stored for a finite amount of time, some places store them forever. some even reject delete requests meaning you should never post something on fedi that you would not want coming back to bite you in the ass because once it's posted here, it's forever. you should use that general rule of thumb for all internet activities tbh
Here's how you avoid that, from an administration standpoint
Don't be retarded
Storage is expensive, but if you have a supportive user base/community, you can always add more. NAS probably grew far too much for their users to reasonably support. With the recent influx of people, we'll have to buy more storage at some point too, but that's already been covered because the community is supportive.
This is also why I think Torba's "storage" excuse is a red herring. I think he wants to sell the platform, and alienating non-paying customers to artificially increase the paying to non-paying ratio for investors was the "best" strategy. Or he is literally just retarded. I don't know, I'm not jewish enough to understand all of it.
@matty@Anon_Z@TinyHouse4Life eriner restricted total user count to 10k so NAS was only ever 10k or less, but he is also hosting at home so buying a drive and popping it in is much cheaper and easier than asking remote hands to do it after you order a drive to the datacenter (or god forbid buy a used one from them)
@TinyHouse4Life@Anon_Z@matty@graf I'm gonna guess that you'd need to create your own instance. Creating modding and updating are not for the faint of heart, or the full time employed.
Yeah I briefly looked into that and it is a lot of work. Getting a domain name (easy), hiring a server host (easy), but one hard part for me would be finding a script and learning to edit it (I hate scripts).
Don't have the time or energy to start something like that now.
@TinyHouse4Life@Anon_Z@matty there's 4, 5 years worth of lore as to why they don't exist here. a lot of it has to do with technical limitations of scaling it across the entire fediverse. a few people have taken on the project but it's stagnated because of this. there are group features using external third party instances however, such as a.gup.pe/
basically with this you create a group, then you can follow it like a normal user here and anybody who posts @ it will be reposted on your timeline. similar but not the entire. functionality is similar but it's not as elegant of a solution
@TinyHouse4Life@Anon_Z@matty actually I guess here you could create an event and set the time to something 100s of years down the road, and use the timeline as a group. have you tried that?
I haven't tried anything other than #s and search to find topics I am interested in
With the migration of gabbers coming over there's been lots of talk of missing the function of groups.
It was such a good way to corral information on specific topics I think people are trying to find an answer to that here.
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