How are fediverse admins currently funding their instances?
Gsus4
joined 2 years ago
Well, I guess there is a way to delete all your comments on reddit: delete all your content, post this glorious picture, get permabanned before they restore your comments.
vraiment utile, cette page, merci.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Yeah, but there was a time when things were getting pretty depressing, because there was this digital TINA: it's either us big corporates or those "special" nazis :/
Thanks
Well, I know I can follow you on mastodon for example by sticking your id on mastodon search and following. I'm not sure how to do the reverse, but I've been able to add some lemmy community feeds to mastodon. I suppose mastodon and lemmy are meant for different things, one is for following, the other is for comment trees, but there should be something like a fedilink that allows you to see the content without leaving the instance where you're logged in....etc etc long to do list
Can I just say that I'm really happy that so many yt alternatives by people who aren't morons are starting to appear? At some point, all I saw from friends and reddit was all bitchute and voat and they tried to stick this alt-right tinge to the fediverse, but alternatives to big corporate are starting to become more normal again.
We're not free from it. If the fediverse took off and ISPs somehow ganged up on the activitypub protocol to force it to make money, some larger instances are going to crack, that's what I mean.
I think you need to graph-traverse the "Instances" link at the bottom of the page for all communities to map it all. I'm actually working on this as we speak.
Stupid question: why is there such a drive to build critical industrial capacity close to potential warzones (to encourage peace efforts that prevent supply disruption, I guess)? e.g. Taiwan, Israel. Is there any basis for a pattern, or am I just seeing what I want to see?
I think it is a combination between interest rate hikes from the free money paradigm that propped up startups and the gig economy and the AI hype train driving the capture of public data (think enclosures 3.0) at the expense of strong communities. This somehow reminds me of when post-dot-com bubble companies like google had to become "profitable" so "don't be evil" went down the drain and they found ways to monetize their users' data.
Thanks, I have another question: what kind of web hosting tier do you need in order to have the functionality needed to host an instance? I was fiddling with infinityfree and found that there are all sorts of minor functionality you need beyond just a catchy name in a domain that won't have a bad reputation to host an instance. I mean, besides electricity costs, labour and some old hardware you have lying around to use as a server, how much is that hosting expected to cost?