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Snapshots on Digital Ocean
Not sure why I never played with this sooner. If you take a snapshot of a droplet on Digital Ocean, it is a point-in-time backup that can be used to create new droplets. What is cool, and how i’m utilizing it, is to save money by destroying the source droplet. Snapshots only cost ~6 cents…
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Reflecting on a Year in the Fediverse
Actually, more than a year. Sometime around early October 2022, I got massively sick of the impending leadership change at Twitter. This was a site I used just about every day for 10 years, and I could feel that things were going to get a bit tumultuous. Looking at my options, I decided, like thousands…
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Setting up Lemmy on a Digital Ocean Droplet
No, not that Lemmy. RIP. I’m not going to write a whole background on why I chose to spin up my own Lemmy instance. Needless to say, this past eight months has been a lot of fun learning about federated internet resources, including my foray into Mastodon and then Akkoma. Long story short, Lemmy is…