Reddit, accused of trying to kill third-party apps, is cutting 5% of workforce.
  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    no no, it’s the apps that are inefficient. I mean, I’m staring at my Lemmy instance and I’m pretty sure that the thousands of requests I’ve taken in have warranted…

    Nope, it’s cost me maybe a penny so far running it.

    • andrew@radiation.partyEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      To be fair, Reddit operates on a much larger scale even for small subs

      Not playing devils advocate, but the burden of hosting lemmy is not comparable today

      • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
        15·
        2 years ago

        Totally fair, massive databases, multiple levels of APIs, hooks, events, thousands of CPU cores and thousands of gigs of ram. I was being snarky.

        However, still doesn’t even come close to justifying that cost