You sound like an old script kiddie who says they're a hacker cause they ran a script from a forum. If it wasn't obvious, I'm talking about actual web architecture. Not hobby junk. Managing to standup a tiny virtual instance for a few people does not mean that you understand anything.

As I said, this I basic architecture shit. Like, an intern would understand the idea kinda basic.

talking about "load balance" as a guarantee of uptime is the same as justifying using Mongo because it is we scale

???? Are you unironically implying that a site with a backend that has multiple servers stood up to spread the load won't have tremendously better capacity, redundancy, and as a result better uptime than a single hobby pc in your living room or whatever you have setup?

Am I the only one who's confused why it's such a bad thing for Threads to federate?

It's just essentially be a really big instance. People can turn it off or go to instances that defederate from threads if they hate it.

My potentially controversial (at least here) take is that the Fediverse needs a few mainstream players like Threads to flourish long-term. It'll be some serious mainstream attention on what federated services offer, and also a shallow end of the pool that normal people can start their Fediverse journey in

Dude, I think you're just ignorant of how web hosting works. Every single site you visit is hosted on probably dozens or more servers so that it can load balance or guarantee better uptime. It's normal. It's weird to be in a place that is only on one server.

Being able to host a stable site doesn't mean everything is suddenly moving into one instance either. The NBA subreddit for example, a single community, has millions of members. Lemmy can't handle anything like that. And technologically having no way to support large communities is a guaranteed way to kill your app.

You also seem to be very in favor of spreading out and decentralizing.... except for Beehaw. Wonder why you're such a purist for decentralization except in this case. Weird. Being able to defederate, make moderation decisions for yourself, and making big decisions like that to defend your community is the whole point of these sites. Maybe you should go back to Reddit if you aren't able to handle it. And for the record, you'd have to be blind to not see moderation controls are lacking at best for this brand new actively being developed site.

But did they proceed 👀