If anyone has wondered why there have been so few attempts at alternatives to #Facebook #Instagram #Youtube et al the situation with #Cara illustrates why: it’s expensive AF to host a site with a shit ton of users and files. One busy week added $96,280 to their hosting bill – and that will only increase.
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I have watched too much #Survivor in my life. It’s a guilty pleasure 🫣. But learning I have #adhd made me realize that I would SUCK at it cuz I can’t play the social game. But how would Survivor go if ALL contestants were #neurodiverse? What if everyone took things literally, had trouble lying, & couldn’t read social cues? There’d be less conniving, less of the stuff the show loves to highlight. But I think there’d be more real cooperation & stuff. It could be quite interesting.
Good info from #TrueGritTextureSupply on how to protect your #art from #generativeAI. https://www.truegrittexturesupply.com/blogs/news/how-to-protect-your-art-from-ai #MastoArt #Ai
I feel better about #handlettering after watching #chrispiascik’s most recent #video. Now I gotta just play play play every day and put all the #texture brushes I’ve collected over the years to use. #lettering #letteringart #digitalart #affinitydesigner #textures #frankentoon #retrosupply #truegrittexturesupply #greenroommedia #digitalillustrator #frick
Let’s see if it shares in 2min, or it waits til the next time cron runs. Published 10:57AM EST.
Testing #Webmention & #bridgy support. If you see this post, could you comment or like it? #IndieWeb #POSSE
One of the true joys of #MiddleAge: waking up at 4:30am because you worked out a little too hard yesterday, your body aches all over, and somehow that shit wakes you up 🤦🏽♂️
@ArpComics The Cloud giveth, the cloud taketh. AFAICS they are using Vercel serverless functions, which don’t scale well price wise with demand.
@ArpComics goes to show how greatly people want alternatives
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@jwildeboer I’m not familiar with Vercel but that’s definitely who they’re using. I hope that they continue with the open communication as they navigate the growing pains.
@tylerzonia Very much so, if only it weren’t so hard/expensive. Like if everyone could be on small servers and still be able to follow everyone else on other servers.
Someone should work on this 😆
@ArpComics I really wish more of my comics peeps had come to—or stayed—in the fediverse 🤓
#VentureCapital made ginormous aggregator sites like #Amazon #Facebook et al possible, allowing them to lose money until they became solvent – but I don’t believe that’s a good thing. Having so much money that an unviable business can be propped up until they corner the market is not beneficial to society and has led to clear & obvious #enshittification.
How different would the internet be now without #VC money helping create monopolies?
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