Good point. I wonder if there was a way to like auto-transcribe these voice/video comments and automatically embed them in the source code so you have like a written-out comment that people could read.

This guy embeds TicTok URLs in source comments followed by long strings of emoji

You’re assuming too much of Americans. We exist in late-stage capitalism and are desperately trying to survive.

I used to be the second guy, and then realized the system I was working in. America can fuck itself (and it is), I’m off to Europe later this year.

And the Lord added, “Your cart ride to the infirmary shall be charged at 100 times the cost of service,” and it was so.

People don’t understand that the average programmer’s EQ is in the top decile because they’re forced to work through the stages of grief several thousand times a year

Indeed. I’m just sampling some from r/pics, even the largest/highest-res photos I saw clock in at ~1MB or just over (jpg, webp). I’m going to dive into Lemmy’s source and see what they’re doing… I imagine the 40mb is an upload limit on the pre-compressed filesize (still enormous). It would be ideal if they shipped with sliders for “compression aggression” or let you pass flags into ImageMagick or whatever it’s using. Even 1MB/image would get expensive fast unless you could prune old images or move into a cheaper cold storage product.

Thank you so much for the details!!!

Re: ActivePub (If I’m not imposing), what does your current storage volume/growth look like? My long-term concern was that, at some point, smaller instances with few users wouldn’t be able to keep up with the cost of data growth or sync overhead. But it does at least look like media is requested from the instance it was created on no matter what instance you’re browsing.

Glad to hear you’re keeping up with all this new traffic!

Are you willing to talk about the costs you’re incurring to run this? Or some details about your deployment? I’m considering spinning up an instance and curious to get a sense of what the overhead is like. I’m guessing you’re handing this kind of traffic on…like a single EC2 instance+RDS?

Also, still trying to understand ActivePub – is it mirroring all content from all other instances locally?

I’m out of the loop - what sub is this referring to?