aaron

It couldn’t. The enshittification has long since begun.

I think it’s more to do with sitting in a position between two or more groups with radically different interests. In this case, investors/future shareholders and their users.

It makes me sad that a site as big as Reddit is letting down so much of it’s userbase for a quick buck

Given that they had opportunities to actually monetize these apps (force displaying ads, charging a reasonable price for API access), it seems obvious that it’s a move toward wiping out the third-party ecosystem entirely instead of just trying to get compensated for it.

The backtracking to allow mod tools to continue operating (those that still add irreplaceable value to the platform) while refusing to negotiate with other apps further confirms that.

I guess it’s Lemmy’s turn to experience the eternal September effect. At least the “New Platform” is better resilient to greed this time. Long live Digg Reddit Lemmy!

Trillian!! That’s a chain of neurons that’s been dormant for about 15 years…

I’m out of the loop - what sub is this referring to?

This fits my idea of his personality so well that it isn’t even humorous to learn about

Glad to hear you’re keeping up with all this new traffic!

Are you willing to talk about the costs you’re incurring to run this? Or some details about your deployment? I’m considering spinning up an instance and curious to get a sense of what the overhead is like. I’m guessing you’re handing this kind of traffic on…like a single EC2 instance+RDS?

Also, still trying to understand ActivePub – is it mirroring all content from all other instances locally?

Thank you so much for the details!!!

Re: ActivePub (If I’m not imposing), what does your current storage volume/growth look like? My long-term concern was that, at some point, smaller instances with few users wouldn’t be able to keep up with the cost of data growth or sync overhead. But it does at least look like media is requested from the instance it was created on no matter what instance you’re browsing.

Indeed. I’m just sampling some from r/pics, even the largest/highest-res photos I saw clock in at ~1MB or just over (jpg, webp). I’m going to dive into Lemmy’s source and see what they’re doing… I imagine the 40mb is an upload limit on the pre-compressed filesize (still enormous). It would be ideal if they shipped with sliders for “compression aggression” or let you pass flags into ImageMagick or whatever it’s using. Even 1MB/image would get expensive fast unless you could prune old images or move into a cheaper cold storage product.