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For my particular niche (illustration) it has a way better concentration of active (and also importantly) high quality actual working professional artists on it than mastodon.

The art scene on mastodon is pretty meh and the largest art centric instance is run by unstable authoritarians that are some of the biggest sources of drama on mastodon.

To each their own. I don’t care for the bulk of RAID setups or the transfer and seek time of individual spinning disks.

Samsung is selling some somewhat affordable 8TB drives but I feel like that’s kind of an odd spot for size where it’ll hold a lot of stuff, but when you get to that level of kinda semi-deranged collector mentality file hoarding, you’re gonna blow past 8 pretty easily. I’m hoping it’ll actually happen in a few years.

I have not seen a consumer SSD of 10 or more TB for sale anywhere and absolutely not 20. So the answer is, I have no idea.

Samsung has started selling 8TB drives for around 500-600 which is really not that bad, but I’m just gonna wait a couple years for larger capacities to hit the market and skip 8. It’s in my opinion kind of a middling size if you’re archiving a lot of video.

For now I’ll just stick with the high capacity HDD setup I’m using.

You can’t really even find a 10+ TB SSD easily right now let alone anything approaching 20, so it’s a moot point for now anyway. All that pricing stuff is cyclical though. There was a big spike in SSD prices a couple years ago prior to that huge price drop we just saw. It’ll come back down again eventually.

We just moved over to a HDD setup recently because I had run out of space on SSD and the amount of space is great, but I forgot how much I hate HDD seek and transfer times and I’m not gonna invest in RAID for now so I guess this is my life.

Might be smart to maybe keep my most active shows on an SSD and the rest of the catalog on the HDD.

Honestly my biggest thing is for affordable 10 or even 20 TB SSDs to hit the market.

I had a post of mine flagged for multiple days on there because it had an illustration of a woman in a full length wool coat completely covering her and not in any way sexual. Shit is so stupid

Definitely sucks trying to find good content in other languages. I’m a native english speaker, but live in the EU now and I’d like to watch more content in the local language to help with my learning. It’s just difficult to come by.

Meh. I’ve already moved on.

#DadProTips

The internet as a whole is just absolutely overrun with bots and scammy bullshit. It’s gotten way out of hand and AI is only making it worse.

All these companies play the frogs in a pot game. Slowly make things shittier and shittier in tiny increments and everyone’s sitting there in boiling water eventually like “this is fine.” I mean there’s still people with cable TV in 2024. And Netflix has done nothing but get worse for the last 3-4 years and their subscriber count just had a decent boost last year so they were like “lol sweet, we’re canceling basic ad free tier in 2024, eat shit”

It’s felt pretty damn nice to finally give all these companies the boot. They got too greedy. But there’ll still be hordes of people just happily paying an ever rising price for this stuff I guess.

Reddit’s been running ads for a while and has never turned a profit

I most likely will eventually, but Plex works great for me for the time being and I’ve already paid for Plex Pass so I wanna get some mileage out of it.

Yeah I tend to agree. I think all communities have a critical mass and past that point they go downhill.

I was just googling for the rat overpopulation experiment because I think it works as a great example of this and it turns out this whole concept has a term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_sink

Regular people didn’t know or care wtf reddit was for quite a while also and there absolutely is a building friction between people and corporate social media. We’re in the early stages for now, but stuff like Activitypub is not going away.

Yeah I don’t like it. Gonna ride this out for now like some of the other people here but I suspect I’ll be moving onto Jellyfin in the next few years.

Yeah that was kinda my understanding too. And regardless of my feelings on it, I think rulings are mostly gonna go in AI’s favor.

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Sure feels like they timed this IPO pretty badly. I think the ideal time to strike on this would have been a few years ago… Based on market conditions anyway. Reddit itself may just not have had their ducks lined up enough, but that’s their problem, not the stock market’s.

• Tech stocks trading sideways for the last year or two
• The interest rate money printer got shut off and cash is not cheap anymore
• Seemingly all the major new tech stock investment interest is circling around stuff like AI
• Federated alternatives are slowly building steam and people seem to have gotten pretty salty about corporate social media
• The pandemic is more or less over and people have pulled back from being chronically online somewhat (this is my guess, I don’t have data to back it up)

Also what exactly is the monetization strategy? Ads I guess? More catering towards creating corporate “synergy” with the Reddit community? Selling user data/content? So basically making the place suck considerably worse for users is what it looks like to me.