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Reddit Was Fun

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Memorial to "rif is fun for Reddit" Android app, aka "reddit is fun", shut down after June 30, 2023

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How to avoid the Reddit downfall (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago by peterg75@lemmy.world to c/redditwasfun@lemmy.world
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  1. Use distributed, federated services like Lemmy, mastodon etc.
  2. Support the hosts with our own funds.
  3. Moderate our own communities.

The second point is the most important. Reddit happened because they are a corporate entity seeking profit. Let's own our social media platforms by actively contributing funds to them.

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[โ€“] douglasg14b@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Ah gotcha.

Isn't that a hard barrier/limit to scale then (as well as support)? Would it even be possible to run say a 5 million user Lemmy instance with a single write postgres DB (I assume compute can be load balanced, you can utilize CDNs for media content, can heavily cache the API, and that it supports read replicas?)

Nevermind 10, 30, or 50 million user communities ๐Ÿค”

Though at that point you're essentially just lighting your bank account on fire for infra costs.