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Spoken like an engineer with no real understanding of what it takes to host Reddit let alone an understand of the business side of things. You have zero idea wh

• ndriscoll 4y ago
  Like I said in my comment, the "business side of things" (i.e. the infrastructure to support ads, spying, control) are what makes it non-trivial. You can't use "making money is hard" as an argument against me saying that it's so cheap a hobbyist could do it for fun. Hosting a forum that gets the traffic Reddit does at higher availability than Reddit does (Reddit returns error pages all the time) is absolutely trivial on modern hardware (except for images/videos, as I said). I've known several people that have unmetered connections/servers in datacenters as a hobby. The entire history of every text post/comment ever on that site could fit on 2-3 SSDs now. The traffic is nothing. It doesn't take a lot to host a site that can fit on one computer with plenty of room to spare.
  • bwb 4y ago
    Lol :)
• account42 4y ago
  > the business side of things Sites relying primarily on user generated content really shouln't have a business side of things. Its just grift.
  • bwb 4y ago
    Another engineer who doesnt understand the cost and complexity of building and maintaining a platform or marketing. Love it :)