Personally, I think yes, it is worth it, However your friends bookkeeper might shit a brick. Building up IT infrastructure from the ground up is not cheap. Although storage cost is coming down.

Seriously, running with Google and company will be cheaper in the short term. What you can potentially gain doing it yourself however is resilience from catastrophic 3rd party events. If your not dependent on a third party for your IT infra, it doesn't matter what they do, or don't do. For a recent example: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/influxdata-apologizes-for-deleting-cloud-regions-without-performing-scream-test/ar-AA1dIPX2

I willing to give them the same cost of living increase I got this year. It was about $800. I think that’s fair.

Sustainably? They don’t (mostly). Most are either pet projects, paid for out of pocket by the instance owner or run off donations. Neither are particularly sustainable long term, with rare exceptions like sdf.org.

The SDF runs just about every federated service you can think of, and has done so since the 1980s, run almost entirely off donations. Started as a dialup BBS (still active).

And at least in my case, shipping got faster once I canceled my prime. Lol. Fast shipping had been the only reason I had signed up in the first place.

Umm.. Florida, I’m not entirely sure you can do that. I think you have to honor other States documents.

Saving this to read later, when I have time. So my apologies if this is not relevant.

When using any sort of social media you are effectively shouting, at the top of you lungs, in the middle of town square. What privacy are you expecting? If you want privacy, join me in “bed”. For “pillow talk.”

I do expect my account to be secure, in that no one should be able to pretend to be me. But privacy? Not in town square, while standing on the bullpup. Holding a megaphone.

Interesting relevant factoid.

I am a truck driver. I make $75,000 per year. Required a license that cost me 2 years of my life or $10,000 (my choice) for school (12 weeks) and roughly $1000 in admin fees to my State to aquire.

My wife is a mental health therapist. She makes roughly $55,000. To do her current job required a Master’s degree($80,000 +6 years), and 2 separate licenses with an unknown (to me) cost but required a total of 5 years on the job to acquire. Before she got that second license, she made more money working at McDonalds. And she still has continued education requirements costing upwards of $800 per course.

She loves her job (usually) and I love that she loves it, but if you’re looking for money, THE TRADES PAY! And usually a heck of a lot earlier and better than jobs that require a college degree.

Edit: Spolling is hard!

I bet 3 upvotes and one Mastodon follow, it’s killed off in less then 5 years

In the Lemmy side of the fediverse you are subject both to your home servers moderation guidelines as well as the moderation guidelines of the server that the community you are posting to has. Each has different things they can do. Same is roughly true of the other fediverse applications.

So if your home server doesn’t allow nudity you should not post nudity from that account.

Here’s the relevant documentation: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/04-moderation.html

In both services you are basically shouting into a giant megaphone. What’s so private about it? If you don’t want say it in public, don’t say it there.

If you need privacy there are much better tools available such as pgp encrypted email or Matrix DMs (a nonfederated Matrix sever would be even more secure but rather overkill).

I think “gender” in this context means what equipment their body currently has.

So glad he’s not my Governor. Still I feel for the people of Texas, even those that voted for this ass.