Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
by brabel on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:24AM
(#36547236)
Discourse is going to pull the same shenanigans as Reddit and Twitter, you can be sure of that. No one is going to host millions of users for free, forever, they'll all come around to get their investment back one day.
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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
by proto_lambda on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:43AM
(#36547372)
What? Discourse is free software, they aren't "hosting millions of users" at all, nevemind for free.
Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
by brabel on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:43AM
(#36547747)
Someone is going to have to host users.
Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
by proto_lambda on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:49AM
(#36548138)
Yes, the respective projects themselves. If you can't trust a project not to fuck over its users, why are you so concerned about the hosting of their discussion platform in particular, rather than just about everything else?
Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
by chienandalou on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:09AM
(#36547540)
Are you thinking of Discord?
Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
by udev4096 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:40AM
(#36547729)
Think before you speak. Discourse is a self-hostable solution
Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
by brabel on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:45AM
(#36547759)
Do you think self-hosting means "it's free to host"? Do you understand someone is paying the costs of hosting, and that someone can do whatever the hell they want to recover such costs?
Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets
by justcool393 on Sunday July 02, 2023 @05:31AM
(#36559827)
usually those costs, for a specific community, are not very high. not sure about discourse specifically, but you can serve thousands of users for relatively cheaply.