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Welcome to the Age of Paid Social Media (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 year ago by psychothumbs@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] huginn@feddit.it 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

... but also pay to support your instance. Don't be a leech.

[–] Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Yo can you spot me for a few months?

[–] bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or self-host

[–] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes but Mr lemmy.world isn't a self hoster

[+] dan@lemmy.fdr8.us 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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[–] huginn@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're self hosting: no qualms with that.

The most populous server is mostly full of people freeloading. They're the same types who torrent without seeding.

It's usually not that big a deal as long as the server has some people chipping in for upkeep but no matter how you slice it: if your account is on a server you're either contributing to upkeep or leeching off the donations of others.

Self hosters arent leeching: they're participating in the decentralization.

With federation servers cache content from each other and then serve it to their users. If you have a ton of users you're using a ton of bandwidth. Simple as.

[–] dan@lemmy.fdr8.us 1 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the reply! After I wrote that I had another look at the context in which you posted your comment and realized I had misunderstood your meaning. That was why I deleted it. I can definitely appreciate that a very large instance will have higher operating costs and that people shouldn't be mooches. Cheers!