Comment on Suggestions for speeding up Alt tech adoption, the GETTR way
sj_zero@lotide.fbxl.net 2 years agoWhile 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.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I was thinking that the code of the wolfballs.com itself would instruct the user's browser to fetch the content from Reddit, i.e. the bandwidth and compute come from the end user's browser, not from a central server.
It would be a very cheap and efficient way to mirror huge amounts of content from all public websites, like Reddit, Wikipedia, Youtube, Twitter.
Only Facebook can't be mirrored like this, because they gatekeep their content from anonymous internet - you need a Fbook account to see what's there.
Using my suggested method, you would have a minimal server usage, only to get any comments/votes that wolfball users have posted on the synced content.