At the time, there was a lot of popular sentiment, on reddit itself, that the internet should be free and it should allowed to continue so long as it was legal.
andobando
joined 2 years ago
I would doubt this. Your server is essentially another client
Nah that is most likely very true. If they go public that would also be quite obvious as they have to release all their financials. A lot of giant organizations are not/were not making money for a long time, including Snapchat, Twitter, Uber, etc.
There is a huge cost to running these things.
He did not
Being a moderator on the jailbait subreddit, a community for sharing sexually suggestive pictures of underage teenage girls
This one is a lie, he was added as a moderator by another mod, at a time when anyone could do so. Lets please stop spreading this.
I don't think it's a lie, but it highlights that revenue is all they're thinking about.
God why is everyone on reddit a cynical asshole?
Makes sense, thanks
i haven’t found any info for syncing accounts across instances (to prevent this loss) or if this is even possible at low level
Not possibly or very difficult from what I heard.
what happens with comments and pictures once a federated instance goes down? say, if i selfhost and i crash without backups, does my content and posts disappear? Everything is stored in a database, so crashes are no different than any other site. It comes back and its accessible again.
what kind of capacity planning would I need to selfhost say, a decade worth of reddit browsing? assuming I only care about my posts and what I save, would they be accessible for me?
You mean like host an instance for just your own account? The smallest instance for $5 a month should be enough.
How the fuck can you paywall LIKES? Oh btw the whole "gold" feature for example, absolutely useless. They charged $5 a more for a lie. The feature would tell you who liked you, not mentioned is that if someone likes you they'll be in the top of your list of people to scroll so its absolutely useless lol.
This is why I’m so blatant on actually moving to federated services. These do not need to be run by megacorps since costs can be distributed through instances.
Me too, really hoping this stuff works out.
I don't think the federation in itself is an issue. We just need to figure out how to present it, and integrate everything.