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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by jehb on Monday June 28, 2021 @07:31PM (#27669696)
This sounds like a great case for a decentralized web infrastructure like Mastodon uses. Each cat server can be exactly as reliable as the owner feels like making it, and each user can choose a cat server based on their needs, and the whole thing is federated because it's based on open source and open standards.

p2p cats for teh win

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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by sitzkrieg on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:45PM (#27670266)
mastodon also downloads remote media from all known accounts with no real way to manage it, making it a nightmare to administer disk usage for any decent sized instance. they go the route of your instance being responsible for all remote media, not the other way around

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/9567

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Re:The 'Fuck You' Pattern by aembleton on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @05:02AM (#27673497)
Each server could have an address that you type into a browser. We could have a 'domain name server' that keeps a list of which address should match to which server.

Then people could easily navigate to cat pictures.

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