ZTabs@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agoDo you believe Lemmy/Mastodon can become mainstream and fully replace their centralized counterparts?message-squaremessage-square464fedilinkarrow-up1607arrow-down120file-text
arrow-up1587arrow-down1message-squareDo you believe Lemmy/Mastodon can become mainstream and fully replace their centralized counterparts?ZTabs@lemm.ee to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square464fedilinkfile-text
What the title says. I think there is still a long way for that to happen but i’ve been hopeful. What do you think?
minus-squareteolan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agoText is very light and compresses very well. While instances may risk having scaling issues with photo and video, text should be very easy to archive forever.
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·1 year agoMedia is only stored by the instance of the user that’s uploading it, if you want to upload tons of data you’re going to end up having to self-host. …and it’s not like links don’t break on reddit all the time. Don’t worry about archiving that’s what archive.org is for.
Text is very light and compresses very well. While instances may risk having scaling issues with photo and video, text should be very easy to archive forever.
Media is only stored by the instance of the user that’s uploading it, if you want to upload tons of data you’re going to end up having to self-host.
…and it’s not like links don’t break on reddit all the time. Don’t worry about archiving that’s what archive.org is for.