I'm just a humble country chicken admin, but I've been thinking a lot about the cost of the fediverse and how we can improve it for all of the instances... in a coop kind of way
The cost of handing all of the media is THE major problem for me atm.
@shlee@Tubsta@decryption almost all colo providers will charge the same for IX / transit traffic. You are effectively buying at a “blended rate”. Transit is now so cheap that unless you are doing more than 1 gig/s sustained it is not worth getting your own ASN and ip range. At the current trend I’d even suggest not bothering below 10 gig/s.
I’ve built a few ISPs and colo networks over the years, I’d be happy to sit down with you and run through the economics of transit , peering and the different price points where changes in network design makes sense.
The one thing I don't quite get about the #Fediverse is why we even need different software. For example, why can't #Pixelfed just be another - more sophisticated - frontend for #Mastodon?
... finally moving from insta to #pixelfed because, well, Meta's announcement about using insta 'content' (I hate that term so much!) to train their creepy generative AI was the last straw. Yes, it SAYS you can petition for them to not use your stuff, but... do you honestly believe they'll back off? Nah. #fuckzuck2024
Laura, you might have seen this recent piece in DigiDay on why some publishers are investing in connecting their sites to the fediverse.
It appears this line of reasoning applies to Scientific American as well, and more so, because the Fediverse doesn't have a middle man with their own (perhaps anti-reality) agend. A publication focused on the facts will find it a better channel to their audience.
I think the #fediverse is the kind of thing that has to happen to a social system like the Internet to force you to be engaged, more self-sufficient, and not reliant upon the largesse of government subsidies and vampiric commercial entities.
"Cox said that Emu can make “really amazing quality images” thanks to “Instagram being the data set that was used to train it” which he described as “one of the great repositories of incredible imagery.”"
This is a great reason for people to switch over to alternatives like #Pixelfed
The nice thing about Pixelfed/Mastodon is that I often open it to post something, yet end up spending an hour or more looking at the amazing, invariably uplifting, informative, positive and uniquely human content that's being shared, before remembering, 'right, I wanted to post this one photo'. That never happen{s|ed} on other social media. #pixelfed#Mastodon
"At least two digital media companies are exploring the fediverse as a way to take more control over their referral traffic and onsite audience engagement." The Verge and 404 Media will both support ActivityPub and the fediverse. #Fediversehttps://werd.io/view/665233a622e6230d5c0d69d2
I just want to say that one thing the #Fediverse has consistently shown me is that no matter how much time and effort I put into my accounts here, I am consistently rewarded far more than my effort both literally and metaphorically, by some of the most generous and gracious people with whom I've ever had the privilege of conversing.
@Alice, @BobWilliams, @zymenchlora, @GayDeceiver, @HCBunny, @theropologist, @JoParkerBear, just to name a few - these are just some of the people here that have stood by me and my little family, several of whom going as far back as when I arrived during the Great Exodus of '22.