On this day, 4 years ago the site was first launched (then a day later the first post made), Formed from chapotraphouse remnants, the old admins decided to make a site using Lemmy as its base. Originally called chapo.chat, Hexbear has grown into one of the biggest instances in the lemmyverse.
Despite various sitewide struggle sessions, wrecker incursions from other forums and federation drama, Hexbear has keep growing strong in its 4th year, now with 4 megathreads, over 4 million comments, 300k posts and much more.
Its being great running the general megathread for a bit over 3 years, since i took over i have tried to get it mostly in time and just one unlike during the old times, i like to think i have done a decent job, plus i have also added a bit of reading material to them so you nerds can learn from them and i like to think you have been reading them 
, its also nice to see the new megathreads how they have slowing grown up to the size to the old general mega in the time of the old admins.
dont have much else to say so have a good day nerd. also
Whats has been your favorite post/event from last year (july 2023-july 2024)?
I wont lie, all the fedidrama has been fun to read, especially when libs wander here
Megathreads and spaces to hang out:
- 📀 Come listen to music and Watch movies with your fellow Hexbears nerd, in Cy.tube
- 🔥 Read and talk about a current topics in the News Megathread
- ⚔ Come talk in the New Weekly PoC thread
- ✨ Talk with fellow Trans comrades in the New Weekly Trans thread
reminders:
- 💚 You nerds can join specific comms to see posts about all sorts of topics
- 💙 Hexbear’s algorithm prioritizes comments over upbears
- 💜 Sorting by new you nerd
- 🌈 If you ever want to make your own megathread, you can reserve a spot here nerd
- 🐶 Join the unofficial Hexbear-adjacent Mastodon instance toots.matapacos.dog
Links To Resources (Aid and Theory):
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Theory:
Also 24 hours after this is posted the admins are closing the site for a day, sorry
Seeing IT guys and programmers joke about how expensive AWS is now, and I guess it's funny how everyone saw this coming but noone had a plan for it.
I've been yelling at cloud the whole time. Centralizing all your infrastructure on someone else's hardware somewhere that you have no control over is a terrible logistical and strategic move even before you get captured by their walled garden and realize you've lost all the institutional knowledge needed to break free.
I've said this here before but whenever I get asked to advise on cloud stuff I become more Stallman-pilled.
It's funny how it was sold as "cheaper" because you pay for what you use but lots of heavy systems would be expensive regardless because it needs to use a lot. Now the push is to make systems more "efficient" so it can be cheaper when it would have just been cheaper to stay on the flat fee model without worry of going over the limit.
Our enterprise solution has such large overhead that management gets mad when we don't use it, but then doing computations on it is also expensive so they get mad when we do. The wild thing is it's not big data or data streaming realistically, we don't need it! We need pretty good laptops and a cluster of like 3 linux servers lmao.
That's the funniest thing. Like we really DON'T have to outsource our infrastructure to the cloud if it's such a hassle.