I agree, this belongs on !RedditMigration , !snoocalypse, !Reddit or something similar.

They desperately need to support horizontal scaling. I’m sure there are enough nerds that could help them out there.

Who?

Just let these instance owners do what they want ? 🤷 If they want to pre-emptively defederate, that’s fine, let them. There will be instances happy enough to federate with them. Once there’s trouble, they’ll probably defederate.

The great thing about social media, is that you don’t have to reach everybody - you just need to reach your community. If your community isn’t on GAFAM then defederating won’t change the experience.

Buy another yacht

Not if you have a consensus algorithm and the machines all return a hash of the video they encoded. If they build IPFS support then the encoding machine could upload the file there, return the IPFS content address and the server can then pick an agreed upon address.

If it hurts the IPO, I’m all for it. My data on reddit is worthless anyway…

Like dogs chasing a car. Once they catch it, they don’t know what to do

1. Create account
2. interact with community
3. ???
4. Profit

Terribly difficult

Was mixer Microsoft’s attempt at entering streaming?

No paywall