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Saving Vivaldi Social from doom: A Sysadmin adventure

vivaldi.com Saving Vivaldi Social from doom: A Sysadmin adventure

Thomas Pike, sysadmin at the Vivaldi browser, shares the story of how he resolved the issue of deleted accounts on Vivaldi Social.

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  • Reads like my log when I do maintenance, repairs on my home server. It’s a nice hobby but even there it can be overwhelming. I can’t imagine having hundreds or thousands of people rely on you (and probably not even get paid for it). It’s truly amazing work. Thanks to all the fediverse admins.

    Pro tip: maybe drop a donation link in the comments ;)

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    • I would HOPE the Vivaldi devs working on vivaldi.social get paid. That's a lot of pressure.

      Those folks do good work, so:

      Buy some junk!

      or Donate time or money!

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      • Thats a lot of merch! I like it. And yes, I hope so too. Have a good one.

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    • I still think we should focus on the professionalization of fediverse hosting. Unless your instance is just a hobby for you and a handful of people, being an admin or moderator of an instance can be a full-time job. People talk about donation-based instances as a model of sustainability, but there is no instance that is actually in the black if you account for the time of admins or moderators.

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      • Thats a really interesting topic! Thank you for bringing it up. I‘m an admin irl for linux and windows based systems as well as a hobby coder (I have built a big commercial crm for a company though).

        In any case, I would probably make „premium“ instances where you need to pay to sign up but you get high tier support, maybe some merch, etc. i‘m a friend of donations but it should not be a very time intensive „hobby“. I know it could work if someone was really smart but thats actually not fair because people put in the work, no matter if they’re smart so they deserve to be paid.

        Ironically, I‘m also a reddit mod (currently mid transition) and the treatment of the mods by spez really stung. Source https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/14ahqjo/mods_will_be_removed_one_way_or_another_spez/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1

        So yes, moderation and especially admin work are real jobs and deserve to be paid (either in money or in some kind of currency, for example cool job offers or whatever).

        Let me know if you have more thoughts on this.

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      • True, but this is also an argument against letting instances get too big, there's many, many problems that only happen when you let instances grow too much, we already have many that are way too big

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  • I thought this was Vivendi for a second, I was confused for sure

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