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  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.comtoFediverse@lemmy.world•Is there any limit to the amount of instances to federate with?
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    5 days ago

    traffic volume is already a serious consideration, but theroetically its what you request. its not like an instance comes up and suddenly needs to interact with 500 other servers.

    if you on your personal instance decide you need to subscribe to thousands of communities on thousands of servers… isnt that kinda on you? i mean… how could you personally ever expect to consume that volume?

    if youre on a community instance and the instance itself is drawing a metric fuckton of traffic… scale up. the good platforms will scale.

    that said, ive kinda tried to sub to every server i can find just for giggles… it ‘pre-loads’ the content on my instant for new users in the ‘newest’ queues.

    there are mitigations you can put in place for rate-limiting other servers also… your server would just fall farther and farther behind

    personally, i think it scales better than other options. bluesky doesnt scale at all

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.comtoClimate@slrpnk.net•i wonder if when AI bubble bursts the serverhalls will shut down and the financial dependency on fossil fuels will go past a tipping point
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    3 months ago

    all i can see are human processes being replaced by more reliable automated ones, and the compute required or provided for those isnt going to just disappear because some us-euro-centric valuation bubble.

    its a service domain available on every continent and its being successfully and financially beneficially implemented in thousands of ways most people just dont understand.

    there is money being made, but the false valuation is masking the reality.

    is it over valued in most sectors? fuck yeah. is use of llms/ai or the building of data centers around the globe going to stop anytime in the next few decades? fuck no.

    so will there be a financial bubble burst where lots of ai players lose out big time? maybe. will that affect the use of ai/llms in absolutely any capacity? fuck no. it would keep chuggin along with new owners.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.comtoClimate@slrpnk.net•i wonder if when AI bubble bursts the serverhalls will shut down and the financial dependency on fossil fuels will go past a tipping point
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    3 months ago

    i spose. as a data engineer of sorts, the llm use im exposed to is not going to be disrupted by some bubble. its providing real world efficiencies shifting cost centers from messy human salaries to 24/7 b2b services. whole call centers automated. analytical departments literally decimated. human beings are the costliest part of any business, and thats why so much effort is being put to replaces those human resources.

    my success every year is based on how many positions i eliminated implementing automation processes.

    for every obvious use of an llm, there are a hundred back-end, non-customer facing services being implemented. this is where people are actually currently losing their jobs, and those jobs arent coming back.

    its hard to envision any bubble that is going to stop that apart from the american civil war 2.0… and even then, id be skeptical.