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- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 1 day ago:
If this was a male-only bathroom I’d still totally agree with the content of the sign.
If you want to pee standing, use the urinal. I, as a man, don’t enjoy sitting in some other person’s pee either.
- Comment on Former Pokémon Company head lawyer says yeah, those latest Nintendo patents are a bit much, aren't they 5 days ago:
And the patent office too.
There really should be more oversight with the patent process.
- Comment on Former Pokémon Company head lawyer says yeah, those latest Nintendo patents are a bit much, aren't they 5 days ago:
You want to start a violent revolution over Nintendo filing bogus patent claims?
- Comment on Former Pokémon Company head lawyer says yeah, those latest Nintendo patents are a bit much, aren't they 5 days ago:
Now only someone has to dare to stand up to Nintendos lawyers. Not an easy feat.
- Comment on ... 6 days ago:
If there is a hell, these guys are going to get the penthouse or a nice villa, on account of how many people they brought in.
Why should the afterlife be more fair than the current life?
- Comment on Is there an increasing trend in the fear of germs/contamination (Mysophobia/Germophobia) ever since Covid-19, or is it just me? 6 days ago:
Intelligent people fear germs and contamination. Idiots still don’t wash their hands after toilet.
(And no, making your hands wet for a second is not washing them. Think of it like that: if you had shit on your plate, would you also just make it wet before eating off it, or would you spend some time scrubbing it clean?)
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 week ago:
Since the admin salaries aren’t counted in the .world figure, it doesn’t matter how well that scales. That’s why we are trying to take them out of the equation.
Regardless of the actual numbers for reddit (which we plainly just don’t have), we do have numbers for plain old forums (e.g. phpBB) which provide a very similar service as Lemmy. And these numbers are far lower that what the .worlds pay.
The main issue here is replication. Each instance needs to store everything of all instances. That requires a ton of storage and that’s not for free. With a network of conventional forums you don’t have that issue.
Or to put it differently: If Lemmy was the size of Reddit (1.2 billion monthly users or roughly 32000x the size of Lemmy right now) and the number of instances scaled accordingly, there would be about 11.6 million instances, each hosting a copy of almost all the content. That’s a crazy amount of replication that increases the cost for everyone enormously. Because not only are there more instances that need to pay hosting costs, but the costs for each instance balloon as well.
But there’s an even bigger issue with the replication: Since everything is replicated, the owner of an instance can get into legal trouble for illegal stuff hosted on the instance, say e.g. illegal kinds of pornography or e.g. in the UK any kind of age-restricted content if they don’t do age verification.
That means an admin can’t just rely on other instances doing their modding correctly, but effectively every instance needs to moderate all federated content too.
That is a strain for 40k users (enough strain to e.g. close down lemmy.ee), but it becomes entirely unmanageable for 1.2 billion users.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 week ago:
Include the salary for admin and mods in the figure for lemmy and we are not at 10^3 for Lemmy either. The figure for lemmy includes only the pure hosting cost, while the figure for Reddit involves a ton more.
Reddit has 2233 full-time employees. If only half of them are working on the product, and you take $60mio a year as the budget, that would be $53700 per year and would include taxes, benefits and all that. Doesn’t strike me as an unrealistic salary, for people like admins, mods, support, devops, provisioning and all that.
Remember, we don’t have “hosting costs” as a figure for Reddit. We have “Cost of revenue” and that includes anything that goes into running the site.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 week ago:
Cost of revenue is $45.9 Million per quarter, so ~$15.3 per month. That’s even less than the administrative cost. And again, this certainly includes the salary for everyone working on hosting, and that’s going to be much, much less than the pure cost of hosting.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 week ago:
Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s close to heroic what you are doing, I wasn’t criticising your efforts or your calculation at all. I’m quite sure you shopped around as much as possible to find the best deal for hosting.
I’m just talking about the technology behind it, and sadly when it comes to Lemmy, it’s sometimes quite painfully obvious that the whole system was built by two randos without a background in distributed computing. It’s not exactly efficient.
In a larger corporation it would count as a good prototype, then they’d scrap it and replace it with the real product. Kinda like how Reddit did it, starting out on Python (web.py was built for Reddit, IIRC), and when they gained enough users they scrapped it and rewrote the whole thing using proper distributed computing technologies.
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 week ago:
You are right, must have misclicked somewhere for the lemmy.world stats. Here are the real ones: lemmy.fediverse.observer/lemmy.world
15472 monthly active users.
But your Reddit numbers are off by quite some margin. First, you are comparing Reddit’s daily active users to lemmy.world’s monthly active users. Reddit has 10^9 monthly active users (1.21 billion, to be exact).
Also, the ~€2000 for lemmy.world are pure hosting costs (except of €153 for donations), but for Reddit you included their whole revenue. That’s not even their costs, that’s their income.
I dug through their Earnings press release, and also there they don’t specifically talk about their hosting costs. The closest I could find was “General and administrative” costs, which is what’s left over of their total costs if you don’t take “Cost of revenue”, R&D and marketing into consideration, and that’s $68.8 million per quarter (~$32 million per month), so 10^7, and that includes salaries and all sorts of other expenses down to the rent of the offices, the PCs their staff use and even the toilet paper. Hosting costs are at best a few percent of that figure, likely much less. So I’d knock that down to 10^6.
That would give us $10^-3 to $10^-2 (if all administrative costs are purely hosting costs) per user. That’s about the difference between paying €2000 to host a Lemmy instance with 15k monthly active users and €50 for hosting a phpBB instance to do the same.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 week ago:
What’s made up? That the US has school cops and Europe doesn’t?
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 week ago:
Because these people think they are “better”. So when a wild barbaric immigrant shows up, they want that person to assimilate, but when they move among the unwashed lower folks, they don’t want to assimilate themselves, because it would be a step down in their eyes.
(I am talking about their view, which I very much despise, just as a clarification)
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 week ago:
I think “expat” is more a thing of people who thing they come from a “great country”, as if somehow it’s a priviledge for the other country to have them there.
This is it. If you move from a “better country” to a “worse country” you are an expat (because you think you are something better than the lower people you live among). If you move from a “worse country” to a “better country” you are labelled as a migrant (by the “better” people you live among).
- Comment on September 2025: Updates for the .worlds and call for donations 1 week ago:
I had a look around the code a while ago, and not only is it lacking in moderation and administration, it’s also very much lacking in the distributed computing department.
It’s essentially set up in a way that all instances store close to all of the data and that with more instances the traffic and compute costs also scale terribly that way.
Lemmy is pretty close to the limit of its technical capacity.
I wish they had set Lemmy up as a bunch of basically phpBB forums with federated single-sign-on and frontend that can access the backend of all the separate forums transparently. That way each instance would have to only moderate, store and serve their own content instead of multiplying all the work for each instance.
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
Decameter is 10 meter, not 10 kilometer. 10km would be a myriadmeter. (SI prefix names are based on greek, and myriad is the greek-based name for 10 000).
- Comment on 5 tomatoes 1 week ago:
Car mileage (or kilometerage, is that a word?)
People don’t say the car has 200 megameter on the odometer, but 200 000 km. Or 200k km?..
- Comment on "Undercover Informant" 1 week ago:
I got a feeling there was a word for NatSoc… Maybe one that doesn’t try to hide what it’s about…
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Yeah. There seem to be a lot of people like him in politics these days. They will drop their bombs on our lives and we will have to clean up their messes afterwards. I guess this is what happens when humans become too comfortable 😅
There’s just no consequence. If a business blatantly lies and then doesn’t deliver, they can be sued for false advertising, for breaking contracts, for violating standards and all that. If a politician lies and doesn’t deliver, the worst thing that can happen is that they won’t get re-elected. And in many cases not even that.
So it’s not surprising that there are more than enough people who are happy to lie and hurt the society for their own personal gain.
Glad to hear that to those who are savvy in British politics, farage was seen as a clown already. Still too bad that he succeeded in screwing over the UK and then peaced out when the consequences came his way. I’m sure it’ll be the same with trump, if he lives long enough until next election, lol.
It’s the populist way. Populism is the “natural hack” of democracy, same as monopolies are for capitalism. A populist promises people the moon, and then doesn’t have to deliver. While doing so, they destroy trust and confidence in the actual politicians doing actual work.
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- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 week ago:
A tiny one at that. Whenever people talk about Lemmy being the revolution that will kill Reddit, it’s a good thing to remember that the Crackberry forum has more active users than Lemmy.
- Comment on Yeah... 1 week ago:
Boooooring!
- Comment on Yeah... 1 week ago:
If you keep hallucinating “loss” everywhere and keep spamming the same useless joke under each post, I will keep telling you to get a new joke.
- Comment on Yeah... 1 week ago:
No it’s not. Get a new joke.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Thanks for the background!
Tbh, to me Farrage was never more than a troll. I mean, boxing through Brexit using lies and then as soon as the referendum is done, just mikedropping out of politics because he knows that this is when the hard part begins is just a pure troll move.
He’s never actually accomplished anything apart from creating chaos and then disappearing.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s what Dyson did, didn’t they? They supported Brexit with a ton of money to transform UK into a no-worker-rights hellhole, and when that didn’t happen fast enough, they moved production to Asia.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
They seriously let that clown join the national party of clowns? I guess he fits right in there, but wtf is a youtuber doing in a political party?
- Comment on 996 – There is cost to your lifestyle 1 week ago:
When someone promotes a 996 work culture, we should push back.
When someone promotes a 996 work culture, I stay the hell away from the dystopian shithole they call a company. If a job requires frequent overtime, that means the manager is a failure and should retire.
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 1 week ago:
And now do 2025… We are regressing fast.
- Comment on "This is the first:" The 16 year odyssey of "time, money, wrong turns and frustration" it took to finally emulate the Pioneer LaserActive 2 weeks ago:
Crazy dedication! Pretty amazing!
