Over time, Lemmy instances are going to keep aquiring more, and more data. Even if, in the best case, they are not caching content and they are just storing the data posted to communities local to the server, there will still be a virtually limitless growth in server storage requirements. Eventually, it may get to a point where it is no longer economically feesible to host all of the infrastructure to keep expanding the server’s storage. What happens at this point? Will servers begin to periodically purge old content? I have concerns that there will be a permanent horizon (as Lemmy becomes more popular, the rate of growth in storage requirements will also increase, thereby reducing the distance to this horizon) over which old – and still very useful – data will cease to exist. Is there any plan to archive this old data?
I’m all for donations, but comment awards just sucked tbh. Opening Reddit felt like opening some microtransaction-ridden mobile game.
I liked Reddit Gold when that’s all there was. A super-upvote conveying “I’d pay money for this posting”.
The weird tiers they added later weren’t an improvement on that but fine I guess and the stupid icon thingies they have now? They’re horrible.
So, I’d be in favour of something like the old Reddit Gold but I wonder how it could even work in the fediverse.
Not a fan of any monetary way to give extra visibility or attention to some comment. I think there’s a kind of slippery slope involved in such dynamics. Just my opinion though, nothing wrong with yours.
I think that’s an absolutely valid concern.
In the fediverse, we have some tools against abuse of this though because every Gold application would be public just like upvotes are.