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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (27 children)

How come Reddit's hosting costs are so high? It's a content aggregator so mostly directs to other sites. While for original content, it used to rely on Imgur for hosting images, does it not anymore? And text content shouldn't use that much resources or maybe I'm wrong?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (5 children)

They wanted to be the next Tiktok/Youtube Shorts/Instagram Reels and added expensive video hosting. Yay for ad impressions and mainstream adoption of mindless scrollers, but a good chance the costs drove up well beyond the influx of ad revenue/premium.

That and Reddit admins have to scrounge every penny to look pretty for their IPO.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

and avatars, NFT support, chat groups, and.. and.. and..

Endless growth, without a use case.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What? You don't want stupid features that aren't really necessary and that most users wouldn't care if they were removed?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Edit omg thanks for the awards.

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