Maybe in the distant pre-cloud past, when sysadmins were still a thing, you’d expect a bigger staff to be needed to manage a bigger datacenter.

But a few devs who know how to spin up a thing with auto-scaling can accomplish a lot

I think these are fair points. and I can’t say I blame anyone for wanting Meta/FB out of their life entirely. I see value in both options - the option of having maximum connectivity to others, and the option of having only parties that are considered to be in good ethical standing. And I’m glad the fediverse can offer both options to everyone. For me personally, having communications cut between users based on who is hosting their instance is a last resort.

I don’t need any sort of isolationism pushed on me. I wouldn’t sign up for an email provider that blocks GMail because “we’re not corpo bootlickers”, or a phone provider that only lets me call the coolest fellow comrades. If an instance wants to be its own little island with its own ideology, I’m cool with that, but it’s not for me - I’m looking for an instance that behaves more like an un-opinionated public utility.

I think many would agree that it’d be great for FOSS engines to get more attention and contributions, but this is the most asinine way to get that message across

So has anyone ever had a form of lightheadedness that rendered them unable to speak? I was underweight for most of my life and regularly felt lightheaded. I could always at least say “oh shit, I feel lightheaded” unless I was right about to faint, which doesn’t seem to be the case for Mitch.

I feel like we’re being taken for absolute fools when lightheadedness is mentioned, but maybe I’m missing something.