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Looks like a fun place! Thanks for sharing.
Welcome. Fantastic photo. :) Got any more?
This was taken on a cruise on a rare day when the sun came out and I could watch the sun set -- at 11pm. :D
I figured I'd post just a short trip report for a Sand Hollow trip in Utah that we did last weekend.
The forecast we super hot for both days (over 100 degrees) so we decided to go in the morning.
We ran Milts Mile on Saturday. That was a really fun trail, but it claimed my passenger-side hub knob. I was able to scoot up middle monkey (which was hella steep but surprisingly not too scary).
The off-camber stuff scared me the most. In the photo above, this section of rock had me in my head so much that I stopped and my spotter and to jump out and assure me the passenger tire was still on the ground.
I don't have sway bars at all (with plans to fix that) so I get tons of body roll.
On Sunday, we ran Ridgeline and the first part of West Rim trail. My wife drove that day and had zero problems with the initial shelves and rocky climb on Ridgeline.
She was able to take the "fun" lines at the Funnel and Steps as well.
What blew me away is she managed to drive up Toll Booth #1. I didn't want to try and drive it because I was worried about the amount of body roll my XJ has, but she wanted to give it a shot, and boy did she ever.
Finally, we hit Top of the World - snagged the photo, and left via the Water Tank "road".
We've got another weekend trip planned in November and we can't wait to go back!
Especially the overnight trips.
Recently took a cruise to alaska and the weather cleared up a bit in time for sunset.
A very windy, but beautiful spot.
I've got an ARB awning tent that packs relatively compact and light that I use for camping when wheeling. Works super well for me and my dogs (or whoever's with me).
Ellie always gets BBQ. ;)
Was at my parent's house in cool weather and we were able to play fetch until she was completely exhausted. Then we had BBQ haha.
Haha wow. What an effective way to describe it.
Long term, I agree -- the whole point of the fediverse is to distribute the user base, moderation capacity, etc. Initially though, we're just trying to make it as easy as possible to for folks to discover lemmy and use it.
Sending them on a wild goose chase to find an instance and sign up complicates that. Getting them to come back the next day is also way harder when that experience sucks.
If folks can sign up on your instance and use it as their gateway to the lemmy fediverse, its tremendously helpful for distributing load.
The challenge is, letting people know your instance exists, and when they finally do and you get 30 signups per hour, scaling your instance to keep up.
Long term, you also have to deal with all the sysadmin crap (scaling up/down based on load, security and updates, backups, assholes that DDOS your instance because they don't like your moderation decisions, copyright take downs, legal requests, etc).
Hard to say -- so far on lemmy.ml, when the backend is overload, I can get pages to load (presumably from cache) but actions I take to change things (sign in, post comments or content, etc) result in an eternal "spinny wheel".
Yeah - its tricky. What I'm seeing though is instead of communicating that need at all, lemmy.ml and potentially other instance owners are just trying to push new users to smaller instances.
I am running my own mastodon instance in my basement - I've got other personal projects running in AWS, and work professionally in Azure. It sounds like you've got some great cloud experience as well. There seem to be lots of other similarly skilled folks here that can assist with deployment and scale automation (if that's what they need), or others that could assist by just signing up for $5/month on patreon to cover server costs. That call to action needs to happen though or else people wont do anything.
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Its certainly featured on Matt's YouTube channel frequently... that dude is one of the reasons I own an XJ instead of a GMC Yukon.