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Written by warren xe/xemvon on 2025-01-25 at 14:44

'i will make the federated instagram!'

(5 minutes later)

'it turns out hosting images costs a lot of money. i'm not good at optimisation. please donate :( '

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Written by warren xe/xemvon on 2025-01-25 at 14:49

i don't know anything about how pixelfed works but looking at mastodon, each instance storing its own copy of every image that's posted on one of them is obviously unsustainable, and becomes more so the more instances there are. it's not a decentralised framework; it's what large monolithic services do clumsily transplanted

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Written by warren xe/xemvon on 2025-01-25 at 14:50

i don't know what the technical solution would be — maybe instances should only store an image if they don't find it on x number of other instances? — but the point is the entire concept is obviously not ready for prime time. it works for a bunch of hobbyists running their own single-user instances in their computer catacombs but not for an actual social network

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Written by wizardry variants lori on 2025-01-25 at 14:53

@esvrld I would simply not have built multiple servers with hundreds of thousands of users sharing nothing but visual media

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Written by warren xe/xemvon on 2025-01-25 at 14:55

@kib everyone knows it's extremely easy to make a tidy profit operating social media. idgi. unforeseeable situation

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Written by wizardry variants lori on 2025-01-25 at 15:03

@esvrld I swear a decade plus of sites like Twitter and Facebook and Reddit convincing people they were rich when they were just pumped with VC and hemorrhaging money broke the brains of so many devs

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Written by wizardry variants lori on 2025-01-25 at 15:05

@esvrld me: fedi is sustainable because you can have servers that are run on beer money that are small enough for volunteers to moderate them without too much hassle

fedi superstars: I should build a server with 2 million people

me:

fedi superstars: and no community management

me:

fedi superstars: why am I broke now instead of rich

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Written by 💀andrzej💀 on 2025-01-25 at 21:45

@esvrld@normal.style imagine thinking that what sets you apart is your innate skill as a software developer and not your ability to sustain losses in the thousands every month

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