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An ex admin of Reddit thinks the protest broke the internal cache layer performance: https://tildes.net/~tech/163e/reddit_appears_to_be_down_duri...

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That was my guess, not knowing anything about Reddit's architecture. The "this subreddit is private" message probably used to be really rare, so it probably does the auth check for every request. Now every Google result links to "this subreddit is private", and so traffic to that endpoint went up by orders of magnitude. The result is an outage.

If I were an SRE at Reddit, the day I got wind of the "we're making all subreddits private" thing, I'd double check that code-path to see what we were in for on Day 0. However, I am not.

Or maybe, the SREs at Reddit decided this is their contribution to the protest to let it burn

In this economy?

At their paygrade?

Looking at Meta/Google/Apple's layoff packages of 6 months of severance, and factoring in $170k-$389k annual income at Reddit (per levels.fyi), I would hope they have enough savings to live off of for months if not years, to enable thtem to protest, should they so desire.

Humans spend the money they have available. All of it.

at this income level, it's not worth losing my job in this economy, not even in a booming economy.

6 months severance is exceptional - 3 months is what you get if you’ve been there at least a few years and in good-standing.

And the twentysomething kids on $200k on the west coast won’t be saving that money (if the number of Teslas on the road in Redmond is anything to go by): they have no reason to believe they won’t make the same kind of TC at the next job they apply for.

They don't have to let it burn to the ground, but they also don't have to bust their asses to allow a point to be made.

Whoa tildes are a reddit alternative? I thought it was all about, like, public access unix systems.

Huh?

It’s not quite an alternative. It’s good though and I’d recommend joining once there’s another invite wave.

tildes.net seems completely unrelated to the ones you are thinking of (the tildeverse)

Ah, thanks.

Is there a known feasible way of receiving an invite at the present time?

Anyone have an invite to share for Tildes?

Would love one too…

Can I get your email address?

tilde at maxg.io :)

Would love one as well.

Sent!

Any chance I could get one too? Email's on my website: https://picheta.me

Same here. Looking at the list of topics, it hits a lot of my interests and isn't 100% focused on tech. My contact details are on my website in my profile.

Sent!

Looks like the email address on your keybase page is unreachable?

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