this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2023
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While i can see a benefit in such a service ... anyway, one (and a half) questions out of principle:
Are you actively participating in Lemmy or the "Fediverse" at large, meaning that you'd have a vital interest in the development of collectively-operated social networks?
Or is it more so that you jumped on the opportunity to perhaps be the first company to put an advertisement in people's feeds, in order to make a buseness?
... I may add, this is advertising a service which potentially would allow for customer lock-in, and at the same time it would allow the service provider to potentially gain power over parts of the network. Lemmy instance admins would in essence hand their keys and trustworthyness to a third party. That is concerning.
And ... this is calling for a feature request: advertisement flag, including an ignore option in user settings.
I think this kind of handwringing shows a fundamental lack of understanding of how the internet works.
Everything you've ever pushed your eyeballs against on the internet was hosted somewhere. These days its pretty much all in the cloud.
All this team did was write a wrapper to automate the instance creation, which I just happily paid for, because even though I could have figured it out, it wasnt work several hours of my time to do so. And if I did, I still was going to use the same cloud providers this team is routing through.
I just paid to host an instance to do my part to support the fediverse. If you are from the elest team jbenguira hit me up or maybe I'll hit your lemmy to get some help. Having some issues getting my domain to work and want to make sure I'm doing it right.
Let me answer to this properly:
ad 1. You seem to not have paid much attention to the fact that part of the audience you are talking to is leaving another company's platform because of what is now called "enshittification". Part of that includes targeted advertising. Why would a cooperative that is driven by such an interest trust your agency?
ad 2. Hope so that you are paying your contractors! ;-)
ad 3. I'll take it. potentially.
ad 4. bruh!
I can also relax as the NSA and certainly others too, keep backups of all my tracking.
Hey brave anonymous
ad1) We are not related to Reddit in anyway, we are open source lovers, no lock in, we want to create an ecosystem for open source authors ... not another AWS ...
ad2) Of course we do! Why do you always guess the worst?
ad3) Potentially? what do you mean? https://docs.elest.io/books/backups/page/overview We have several ways of doing and downloading full backups including the data and the software stack to be run anywhere else ....
Finally, all backups are encrypted, so not sure about NSA or anything else ...
Question for you: are you taking your pills as prescribed by your doctor? :)
What an honest answer. Nice and educated.
Happy that you like it :)