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[โ€“] frankyboi@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Still not enough content. I already feel the slow down in activities. I'm in a weird spot rn. I go back to reddit because there's more interesting stuff to see, but the official apps is so bad, that I come back here. Also People here seems more intelligent on avg.

I like lemmy because there is no ads and no gold and premium stupid stuff like NFTs and 50$ awards. I liked the awards ideas ,but damn paying up to 100$ for digital emojis that everyone will forget in a day?

The big downside is the lack of embedded videos. Of course videos takes a lot of server power compared to text. But I hope we find a way to implement this in the future.

I think we should have a public board that shows the instance hardware spec and the finance. So we can set donations goals to upgrade servers or keep them afloat.

[โ€“] CatZoomies@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Have you been contributing and participating in some of the content discussions in the Fediverse? I found that I was a consumer and just came to Reddit to read stuff. But with Lemmy I'm far more interactive.

Cool idea on having a public board, similar to the modlog. Perhaps that idea should be suggested to the Lemmy devs if it is important to you: LemmyNet Issues board: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/

While I'm not sure about the information for your instance, lemmy.ca, I'm with lemmy.world for now. Lemmy.world is hosted by the same people who run mastodon.world.

Lemmy.world posts a blog update that outlines their hardware and financial costs.

"The current VPS couldn't be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server."

"May / Expenses / Mail: EUR 32,52 / Hetzner (server etc): EUR 424,34 / Storage: EUR 75,69"

[โ€“] Mr_Lobster@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Eh, I used reddit before they had their own image and video hosting, it was fine as long as you had RES. Maybe imgur can get some more traffic.

[โ€“] theneverfox@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's embedded videos, no need to host them yourself - you just need to link to somewhere supported.

It's on my to-do list for my app, if no one has figured it out on the web maybe I'll help out. It's not that hard to do but it's not exactly fun

[โ€“] frankyboi@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I mean that you don't need to change apps to play a video. I use Jerboa .