Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

@dick_turpin I don't think it has anything to do with free speech BS. It's simplier than that. Twitter needed ad revenue to exist. Musk's uncertainty and inconsistency has scared advertisers, they pulled there spend. He's now in a rock and hard place having lost 1B revenue loss for 2023. Great advantage of Mastodon is not having to rely on ad revenue.

Setting up my Mastodon server made me think about #PostgreSQL availability and backups.

At the moment it's just a single database instance.

Harald's #pgconfeu talk on Reasonable Availability, did a great job in explain that we don't always need the complexity.

However it prompted me to think that there are many times where sensible backups probably should be the first port of call rather than availability.

Pretty happy to have finally dipped my toes into Mastodon. Late to the party as usual.

It's super cool to see non-tech people joining and some organisations, definitely feels like some momentum building.