John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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Do you really think Lemmy could handle the amount of people that Reddit has?
yup. no question. Not one instance mind you, but Reddit is also a giant cluster. (and clusterfuck)
As far as I know the existing instances are usually running on capacity and always in need of donations,
We just need the big bois to stop stuffing themselves. There's 0 reason to have 2/3 of the totally traffic flooding into world because people are scared of Federation that they never even have to deal with.
Maybe Lemmy would benefit of some way to get people to pay, such as purchasing the ability to give people awards etc.
Maybe we make some premium pay servers with baller architecture, killer response time, user capacity limits and high speed storage?
But the point is that without a business model, the Fediverse will only be able to handle a limited number of enthusiasts before it faces scaling problems.
Eventually, it's going to be ads, donations or payments. It's all someone else's computer, someone has to foot the bill. But at great scale, you should be able to have an ad-free experience for something in the range a dollar or two a month.
It costs me less than $10/mo to run mine and some of that is because I have to pay for an email forwarder until my hosting provider lets me start sending emails, part of that is factoring the cost of the domain name. The actual cloud server costs $5/mo right now.
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Do you really think Lemmy could handle the amount of people that Reddit has?
yup. no question. Not one instance mind you, but Reddit is also a giant cluster. (and clusterfuck)
As far as I know the existing instances are usually running on capacity and always in need of donations,
We just need the big bois to stop stuffing themselves. There's 0 reason to have 2/3 of the totally traffic flooding into world because people are scared of Federation that they never even have to deal with.
Maybe Lemmy would benefit of some way to get people to pay, such as purchasing the ability to give people awards etc.
Maybe we make some premium pay servers with baller architecture, killer response time, user capacity limits and high speed storage?
But the point is that without a business model, the Fediverse will only be able to handle a limited number of enthusiasts before it faces scaling problems.
Eventually, it's going to be ads, donations or payments. It's all someone else's computer, someone has to foot the bill. But at great scale, you should be able to have an ad-free experience for something in the range a dollar or two a month.
Isn't it easier to handle most users on on server than it is to have a bunch of equal servers? Then the problem just moves off the one server towards the communication between the servers being the bottleneck.
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someone tell that n00b that Bluesky is not an alternative
It is to twitter.
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Wait how is Squid this popular?
Its not, this incident will be reported to the nearest democracy officer.
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A flying squid, too.
Don't forget Margot Robbie
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It's fun for now until the state gets a hold of it. They'll be over here sooner or later, just let them trickle in and get everyone used to it.
True. For now I'm happy to just see Twitter lose.
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I wish he had mentioned Lemmy, but it's understandable that he didn't. Also Bluesky isn't an alternative to big tech, it IS big tech. I wish it wasn't stealing so much of our publicity lately.
But beggars can't be choosers, and we have seen some nice growth over the past couple months. John Oliver fans are the perfect candidates to join the fediverse, hopefully some of them find their way to Lemmy.
Exactly, don't let perfect be the enemy of good. Someone using BlueSky over Twitter is a good thing.
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What did Lemmy do that made him a monster?
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Come to Lemmy, we got: blood thirsty Linux users, furries, femboys, communists, and tankies. Also, porn.
The porn is sadly lacking, actuallly.
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Don't forget the Trekkies.
There we go. I was waiting to be represented.
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True. For now I'm happy to just see Twitter lose.
Yeah, the important thing is to get people off the Big Web, we can work on getting them their forever home later.
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I'm not familiar with the details of that, but it seems like more of a red herring that a start to me. A form of controlled opposition to divert people from truly revolutionary platforms.
Youâre absolutely right, but as a UxD, until these platforms learn UxD, theyâll never work. They canât.
It doesnât matter how great they are, the vast majority of people wonât learn. And they shouldnât have to. Thatâs why big commercial apps are better â good designers need to eat, and big companies can pay for their eggs.
It doesnât matter how good your model is, without great UxD, youâre dead in the water.
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The porn is sadly lacking, actuallly.
How much do you need!?????!
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How can anyone not love the guy?
I think he plays the awkward card to actual cringe levels at times but I'll also watch Cody's Showdy so that can't be it entirely.
Can't say I love him, but I do appreciate the work he does.
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Don't forget the Trekkies.
I see a lot more Trek memes here than on reddit and I love every one
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I've heard all kinds of bad rumours about Brave but idk if any of it is true.
They're balls deep in crypto but even the crypto bros don't buy their bullshit
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Come to Lemmy, we got: blood thirsty Linux users, furries, femboys, communists, and tankies. Also, porn.
Thanks, Stefon.
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True. For now I'm happy to just see Twitter lose.
I feel like there's a buddhist lesson about impermanence here.
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I think he plays the awkward card to actual cringe levels at times but I'll also watch Cody's Showdy so that can't be it entirely.
Can't say I love him, but I do appreciate the work he does.
Haha, yeah Cody has definitely made me cringe out of discomfort before. I haven't watched that guy in awhile! Appreciate the reminder. And Oliver can get close to that level too, for sure.
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I wouldnât mind having some ads, but I wonder how some more extremists users would react.
But I strongly believe that depending on donations is a very tough place to be, it places the burden of âbeggingâ on the instance owners, which are already doing all the work and should definitely be compensated somehow.
But I strongly believe that depending on donations is a very tough place to be
If you get a good deal on hosting then, on medium-sized instance donations easily cover costs. lemmy.world suggests this can scale up a lot even if you need more complex systems in place to deal with demand.
