International coalition calls for action against surveillance-based advertising

Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by nonameiguess on Thursday June 24, 2021 @01:39PM (#27621176)

I believe the claim is this wouldn't happen. You wouldn't need to separately pay for 40 sites if they were content to have a few thousand users each like the old days. Hosting that really is close enough to free that people would still do it. Keep communities small. You don't need to network with 3 billion people.

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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by fsflover on Thursday June 24, 2021 @04:49PM (#27623552)

> Keep communities small. You don't need to network with 3 billion people.

With federated platforms like Mastodon, PeerTube, PixelFed, you technically can network with 3 billion people, despite the lack of the central server.

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Re:International coalition calls for action against surveill... by nonameiguess on Thursday June 24, 2021 @05:57PM (#27624352)

Of course, and that's another option, too. Make truly distributed applications that don't rely upon servers you own serving everyone, and you pay no hosting costs at all.

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