It uses Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite technology to communicate, though it is unclear if it was the cause of the loss of contact.

Surely this is the surface vessel and not the sub. Starlink communications are around 11 GHz, which can only propagate a couple meters in salt water.

I think the question about “being on Beehaw” is because you’ve been commenting on a post in a Beehaw community.

This update, specifically how funding is happening, helped me understand some of the reasoning behind the narrow focus of the Lemmy developers. I appreciate them foregoing their regular paychecks to work on stability. Hopefully things settle down soon to the point that the extra eyes and hands on the project are more helpful than they are distracting.

bit off more than they could chew

By starting a Lemmy instance a year and a half before Rexxit? I never saw them claim to want to be the next Reddit. The Fediverse had an influx of users and Lemmy doesn’t currently have the mod or admin tools to deal with that situation gracefully. My understanding is that most of the bad actors were external to Beehaw.

They didn’t bite off anything, shit was being shoved into their mouth so they closed it.

Personally, I’m using my very own Lemmy instance so that I can choose who I federate with (including Beehaw). I totally understand why some folks might want to have their home instance elsewhere, and it’s cool that federation gives us that ability.

What all this has highlighted for me (and clearly a bunch of other people) is just how little friction is required for me to say “eh, I could live without [reddit | twitter]. Switch to a different app? No thanks. That’s no effort. I deployed my own Lemmy instance and figured out the fediverse instead of downloading the official Reddit app from the App Store. I think that shows how little loyalty some people have to these centralized platforms.

I'd go with something like this Lenovo M900 for $80-$90 used. Sometimes you'll get lucky and find one with a single 8GB stick, then you can get another for ~$20 and you've got a quad core x84-64 machine with 16GB of RAM for right around $100.

The downside would be power consumption compared to a Pi if you're trying to fit in a severely power-constrained setup, but the M900 will draw around 11-13W idle and 55W under higher load. so it's not bad my any means.

At the same time, Rexxit is getting more folks involved with Lemmy (both as users and developers). Lemmy's already a 4-year-old project. I expect we'll see it advance and mature a lot in the coming months from all the new attention.

Each of the three largest instances now are working to be a standalone replacement for Reddit and are in direct competition with each other.

I think it's clear Beehaw isn't working to be, or wanting to be, a replacement for Reddit at all.

There are various definitions of “success”. One instance’s definition may well be “replace Reddit”, and another’s might be “create a welcoming community where users feel safe”.

It impacts the sorting algorithms. More info about that here.

I feel like WeWork got close.

I’m up to about 300MB of disk usage after a day of hosting my own. Curious to see how it grows.