2026-07-31 23:05 UTC
@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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@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz 2026-07-31 23:10
@barbra@social.vivaldi.net @dalias@hachyderm.io @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange I understand, and I appreciate the selfhosting sentiment, but the point I'm trying to make is that 'thinking small' doesn't make public services smaller. the 80s BBS is not a realistic representation of what needs or amount of people are out there today. If you want to move something like Youtube onto decentralized private hosting, even if everyone caters to their own audience, you'd need far more than a local symmetric gbit upload. I think we need both. A balance