Data center servers are a different breed. I got an old one for cheap once and only ran it for a few minutes because it sounded like a jet engine. No way to make that thing efficient.
Some admins really love watching who votes for what and banning people based on that.
You can disagree with that if you like but if it means they get pissed enough to defederate your whole instance, you lose.
If your instance is just you and a handful of others, no one will notice or care. But once you have 1000 users the amount of anonymous votes will be noticed and there will be consequences. Maybe not defederation but everyone banned for upvoting bigoted content or vote manipulation will migrate to your instance and you'll be hosting the biggest shitbirds around.
I don't see a solution to this. As long as admins snoop on people's votes that will be the dynamic and PieFed puts itself at a disadvantage by doing anything different.
That's how it used to work but I got rid of it because there were too many unintended side-effects. Now a private vote is just one that is not federated.
I really need help with anubis. I can get it to block but not in such a way that also allows API access and federation and web clients like blorpblorp.
Anyway I only need to turn anubis on for 10 minutes and all the scrapers go away for days. They really really hate it!
One availability zone is enough. I am not convinced that Aurora is good value.
This seems like an ad for pulumi, whatever that is.