Let’s be honest, this price change was all about being able to charge the big corps mega money for access to their data in order to train new generations of AI. The price is absurd, yes, but the owners of reddit know that Google and Microsoft have deep pockets (among other global corps wanting the massive amount of data reddit has saved).
They never expected the third party apps to be able to pay this much and frankly, they don’t care. It’s HUGE profit from AI corps, and the losses, at least short term, will be overshadowed by the gains. Long term? I don’t know, this isn’t my area of expertise, but, like I did with Twitter, I have moved on so at this point, it’s no longer relevant to me.
Hi from Edinburgh - I never actually used (or even knew about) /r/casualUK, but new to Lemmy and looking to add so my subscriptions while I find my feet!
Lemmy.world is an instance - a server that hosts your account and any data.
UKCasual is a community, essentially a subreddit. Its stored solely on the Lemmy.world server
Whilst this community is stored on lemmy.world, if you’re logged into another instance you can still see and interact with the UKCasual community, but data remains on lemmy.world
I’m not sure if there’s a sync delay between instances etc
Okay. So if lemmy.world goes down then presumably all the communities it hosts also go down? This seems to present a bit of a logistical problem for community longevity. For example, a small instance that creates a popular community across all of the fediverse then has to try and support a large amount of traffic with possibly little local income/support?
I think this is why lemmy.ml has been asking people to stop signing up there. Centralising everything goes against the point of the Fediverse but also ends up costing the people running the instance a lot of money. It’s best for everyone if we all spread out a bit.
My other account is on Beehaw.org and they’re pretty transparent about what it’s costing them and how many donations they’ve had, it’s definitely interesting beehaw.org/post/416496
Nah, I just have two because I’ve historically split my online presence up into these two usernames. Tbh I’ve just subbed this one to all of the same communities as the other one so it’s largely pointless until things spread out a bit more, but if I’m posting about videogames I tend to do it under this name and if I’m posting about cross stitch I tend to do it on the other one. Eurovision goes on both :D
No actual practical benefit beyond it just seeming tidier to me lol.
It also seems to create multiple of the same communities. Also depending on what instance you are signed up with you can’t access posts from certain other instances
I’m here. Took a few days as I stood up my own friendica instance first off and it took me a while to realize it doesn’t play that well with Lemmy. So I’ve started my own Lemmy instance now, which was 300% harder than it should have been as the devs aren’t keeping the documentation up to date with the config files.
Now that I’ve used the fediverse it’s not as weird as it sounds. But the learning curve is steep and I’m only here thanks to perseverance.
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