Comment on Suggestions for speeding up Alt tech adoption, the GETTR way
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Great idea. I don't think we even need to mirror all content. Just the top content. Maybe make a bot for each sub.
This should be made generic with a docker container so anyone can deploy it.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
... you could save $$ if you only save wolfball user comments and votes on synced posts, but fetch the post itself from Reddit.com
Something like:
On website load, fetch posts from a default or user curated list.
Check if there are comments/votes from wolfballs users. Add them on top of the fetch
Present to user seamlessly, making it look like everything is hosted on wolfballs, but actually fucking Reddit.com over and saving nice $$
Profits???
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Think I would just make a bot account, scrape reddit once a day for top post, post to wolfballs with bot account.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Reasonable I think. Right now its still a small site.
That approach would start getting expensive if wolfballs became really big, and you'd have to pull and host TBs of data. But by that point, you'd probably also have a revenue plan to make the $$
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
It would be a small amount if data. 99% of reddit is garbage. Its only the top post on specific sub's that would matter.
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years ago
While that would save you disk space, I think you'd end up more than making it up in bandwidth and CPU utilization. Every time someone visited the page the server would run to reddit and grab the posts you're looking at, then serve them to the user. Very quickly, a few terabytes of storage would become cheap compared to the bill you'd rack up doing all that extra processing to add some posts.