Post by @anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

2026-07-31 20:56 UTC

@barbra@social.vivaldi.net @dalias@hachyderm.io @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange to be honest is to acknowledge that that's a fallacy. I'm sorry. If someone doesn't log in for a few years, their stuff disappears, so it's much less prevalent than you'd imagine. We're also not going to just disappear the influencers; their existence isn't dictated by them existing, but others following them. 100TB of storage is nothing if you want to host a video site, but even besides that, you'd need bandwidth, and low latency sites in every region.

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@barbra@social.vivaldi.net 2026-07-31 23:05

@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz @dalias@hachyderm.io @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange 100 TB and a gigabit upload/download fibre link is fine if you only want to share videos with a small cadre of people. Back in the day 10mbps down/1mbps up was just fine to be able to listen to my mp3 collection at work. So with 1000 times the upload speed, a few videos is nothing. You're thinking too big - which requires massive infrastructure, which would require others to help pay for it, which would inevitably require advertising, and advertising ruins everything it touches. Think local, think personal, think small, think hobby. Kind of like the bbs I had in the 80s. After the hardware, my only costs were 2 dedicated phone lines and some electricity. No need for ads, no need for donations.

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