Project Jortage (attn: instance admins)
last week I started Project Jortage, a collaboratively paid for S3-compatible media storage solution for fediverse instances
instances can join the pool for free, optionally donating to our OpenCollective. Jortage primarily offers cross-instance media deduplication which is a huge gain for Mastodon instances that indiscriminately copy all media
current members include sleeping.town, glaceon.social, toot.cat, donphan.social, cryptid.industries, and a smattering of personal instances
learn more: https://jortage.com
join by emailing hello@jortage.com or DMing me; I'll walk you through migrating from your current media storage
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Embrace the beautiful strangeness of yourself and you will not fear standing out or fitting in.
it's also increasingly feeling like the Node style approach to dependencies is creating untenable dependency trees (surprising nobody) that balloon compile times and maintenance cost to ridiculous scale.
my oldest rust project is over 4 years old and the compiler breaks it every few months. if I were to compile it today, it would still take around 6 minutes to compile everything, if I miraculously got all the dependency versions lined up to compile under the current compiler.
this is a deeply frustrating aspect of working with Rust and it makes me scared of writing anything long term in it anymore. you really do just have to pin specific versions of the compiler to keep the lights on.
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