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Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month by 0cf8612b2e1e on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:38PM (#50171580)
These platforms are doing something wildly more exotic than I imagined. 1500 clients?! You could have hosted larger crowds in IRC with 90s hardware.
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Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month by BobaFloutist on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @04:26PM (#50172173)
Need there be a further explanation than the vastly higher amounts (and size of) images and video that users are constantly posting?
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Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month by pigeons on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @09:32PM (#50174981)
I would imagine the images and video are mostly processed on the users' machines/browsers though.
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