douglasg14b @ douglasg14b @lemmy.world

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Let's not mention the abysmal performance for servers. Making it largely infeasible to scale.

It's not the solution, not even remotely close, unfortunately.

Definitely not tube archivist...

Development is semi-frozen. The developer is also more hostile and they need to be even to contributions from others.

And it does not store your files in a way that is self-contained. And there is no option to control the naming or organization of the files it stores.

Your file system should be navigatable and understandable without having to run software and pull information from a database in order to interpret it. Tube Archivist is far FAR from ideal media archival software IMHO.

It misses the mark in so many ways it drives me insane.

Except that relay nodes often get out onto proxy lists.

Which means you now get to solve capchas for absoluty f-ing everything now.

I mean, the business model works? They make money, they pay staff, and they are growing.

I don't know what you're talking about, people have price sensitivity of course. You are projecting yours onto "everyone", is it not a successful business?

There's a niche they cater to, if you are not that niche then you are not that niche. Doesn't mean the niche doesn't exist.

$10/m is unlimited searches though...

And yeah, searches are actually quite expensive. There's a LOT of infrastructure that goes into making something unique with your own search engine that isn't just a wrapper over Google.

The actual compute cost per search, in 2024, was $0.0125. Kagi states they want to keep Costa below $0.015 per search, but their search partners are a major expense.

That ofc ignores all the supporting infra, devs, support....etc that goes into making it all possible.

This is the kind of conversation, healthy, back and forth, and conceding instead of doubling down as we learn more that I wish was more common on the internet these days.

Bravo, really.

They're definitely stretching themselves too thin, but as long as I get better and more relevant, cleaner, no advertising search results for my knowledge work and research. With my privacy in tact.

Then I'm continuing to pay them for a product I find to be superior than the alternatives.

According to ad hoc statistics. Between 25-50% of posters are bots. However posters are only about 10% of the Reddit population.

If we make a completely incorrect assumption and say that every single user is a poster, that still means 10-15x the entire population of Lemmy, it doesn't really change much here.

If you take the difference between posters and lockers into account and you are crazy harsh with the bot numbers you're really only reducing the population of non-bits by like 20% or so.

I bet they're home addresses haven't.

How's the FCC going to prepare for anything when it's being gutted?

Probably not, reddit, like all modern social media platforms, is essentially "too big to fail". They have captured and cornered their markets and will continue to dominate indefinitely.

Throughout all of these things reddit's user growth has went up, not down. Daily Active Users grow, month over month, more than 20x the entire population of Lemmy., just think about that, there's more growth to the daily active user count on a monthly basis (not the totally user count), then the entire population of Lemmy, x20.

It's depressing to think about. But it's also reality. And reality fucking sucks.

All I can hope is that lemmy and similar continue to grow.

What advertising?

Every single time with red comes up there's always this FUD. You, specifically, don't miss any opportunity to make mention of this. Across Lemmy, which is rather suspicious. Helping the Russian war effort? That's a pretty big leap here.

Why?

Imagine a search engine aggregator aggregating search engine results from multiple sources for aggregation. The more indexes they support the better the results are going to be for everyone, I don't see this as a problem for data aggregation.

Why should data aggregation give any sort of shits about geopolitics?

Regardless, the topic of this post, fediverse search, is part of their own search engine anyways afaik

Oh I'm sure. And Trump and other MAGA would look on with glee because they hate the PNW.

This is another one of those stupid feel-good statements where it feels good to say but completely hand waves away all the complexities of actually achieving this.

Never mind the massive financial barrier to get people to switch away from gas in the first place (which the majority of everyone is not going to be able to afford so how do you expect that to work?) where does this money come from?

But you now need to contend with electrical infrastructure changes to support that extra load. Where does this money come from?

Sure in theory this is a great idea I would love to switch to heat pumps as I'm sure many others would as well. However the cost is egregious ($30-50k). And unless it's supported with massive government subsidies (remember the US government just cut all subsidies for these sorts of things) then it's not going to happen because people just can't afford it.

As long as they don't cut off gas to the PNW. Almost all the natural gas we use comes from Canada, and the majority of the voters there didn't vote for this.

That would be fucking brutal, no heat or cooking gas.

It's because critical thinking is a dead skill in this country.

We have essentially trained an entire generation to not rely on critical thinking skills anymore. And apparently in the process of graduating a second generation of the same.

It is the plot of Idiocracy. Where the people don't even understand the things that affect them on a day-to-day basis they just know that "it's what plants crave"

Yes but how's that relevant to the topic at hand?

Topic of hand is sending all of your (mismanaged or otherwise) wealth overseas while

Oh dear Lord. The hood has a filter????

Yeah, that's probably fucked up, none of the filters in anything in this house had been changed in years when we got the place. The filter for the furnace was black.

And it's been over a year since then I'm sure if the hood fan has a filter it's absolutely disgusting.

But I also meant that the hood could have a shape to it so that it collects air from the front burners which it doesn't.

That's only works so long as Firefox stays alive and in development.

LibreWolf relies on Firefox being funded, if Firefox dies then LibreWolf also dies. Tens of millions of dollars go into engineering salaries to keep Firefox up-to-date on web standards, features, and performance. LibreWolf benefits from this.