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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

  • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I guess there’s still DigitalOcean and Linode, the Azure and AWS of Some Guy LLC, respectively.

    • bitofhope@awful.systemsEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Linode now brought to you by Akamai, the CDN that also exists, you know (it’s not just CloudFlareont!)

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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        8 months ago

        Off the cuff I think (and would have to doublecheck) Akamai is probably bigger by a fair deal, they’re just not nearly as loud

    • TinyTimmyTokyo@awful.systemsEnglish
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      8 months ago

      I’ve been using DigitalOcean for years as a personal VPS box, and I’ve had no complaints. Not sure how well they’d scale (in terms of cost) for a site like this.

      • froztbyte@awful.systemsEnglish
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        8 months ago

        this is one part of the problem, yeah - pretty much all the VPS offerings are extremely painful cost-wise if you need chonky hosts

        rootservers (or things off the serverbidding market) are way better bang for buck (i.e. my all-the-things gremlin box is dual-4TB 64GB i7-something, at ~38eur/mo)

        I really, really hope they sort this shit out

    • Deborah@hachyderm.io
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      8 months ago

      I’ve had good interactions with linode, though both linode and digital ocean for mail deliverability require relatively frequent harassment of Microsoft and less frequent harassment of Google, as both of them like to block those two hosts across-the-board because they are dickbags.