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  • By saying being a landlord is not a job and implying that everyone should get handed a house to live in - this post is saying renting should not be allowed / an option.

    If there is no financial incentive to maintain the house, then there is no reason anyone would become a landlord / rent out their property.

    Most people also fail to consider how expensive it can get to own a home, even if you’re renting it out. Rent covers unexpected costs of the home. For example, through no fault of anyone - a tree put its roots through your main sewer line and now the house has been filled with back up nastiness. In this situation - is the landlord / homeowner expected to come up with the money out of their own pocket when the rent is capped at the mortgage? Something like that can easily cost upwards of $20,000. Landlords just magically make money appear to cover the maintenance?

    Renting is more like insurance. You pay a fixed rate while the landlord takes the risk of potentially having to put out a large sum of cash in a short period of time. Just because you didn’t get in an accident today doesn’t mean your insurance company didn’t pay out claims today. It’s a shared risk for all renters of the property instead of them being directly on the hook.





  • Honestly, I think the platform is pretty stable if you take out the outages caused by DDoS. Let’s also be honest, would anyone be shocked if those DDoS’s were actually sourced by a competitor who lost users to this platform?

    It takes a ton of time and effort to be able to build robust DDoS mitigation strategies, even for Fortune 500/100 companies. Sure, you can throw yourself behind a known mitigation company, but their out of the box rules don’t always work for you. Most of the time you go behind them in a “transparent” mode and begin slowly deciding what is and isn’t a real threat. Volumetric attacks are easy to deal with - “hey, that’s fake traffic, block it.”. Attacks like the admins of lemmy.world have talked about are application layer and require much finer tuned filters. You can’t just immediately say “block this” because you may block legitimate traffic.

    I think it’s more about getting the time to be able to develop the features mods want after dealing with how to protect the site, than it is about “stability of Lemmy”






  • I opened sync to a blank page about 6 times before I had to uninstall it and I still find myself opening the folder it used to be in. I pause every time and sigh before I go find something else to do. I’m excited for the upcoming mobile apps for Lemmy and hope this can be a new home / refuge from the sadness that is now Reddit