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Mastodon simply won't be able to scale at the rate this is going. It's simply too expensive to run the instances and too labor intensive to moderate. TBH I thi

Mastodon simply won't be able to scale at the rate this is going. It's simply too expensive to run the instances and too labor intensive to moderate. TBH I think it might've been a mistake from mastodons side to allow media hosting. Running ffmpeg in the background to transcode video, the image optimization scripts and the hosting of it all gets a bit costly. I might be wrong on this, I don't run an instance myself, but in my perspective cost cutting should be prio number 1 even if it means you have to cut back on some features. Removing toot edits should allow for a more aggressive caching strategy etc. This should allow more people to start their own instances without being afraid of potentially hitting it big.

2Gkashmiri 4y ago
https://bunny.net/stream/ https://bunny.net/stream/ how come this isn't being used by activitypub to offload server work? you dont even have to use ffmpeg, just dump the video directly and get encoded videos back... if your server is NOT running FFMPEG, that is potentially more resources available for actual server work
- 6yyyyyy 4y ago
  Why would uploading the video to a SaSS, paying them to run FFmpeg, and downloading the result be cheaper than running FFmpeg yourself?
  - jdminhbg 4y ago
    I don’t know if it actually is cheaper, but it certainly could be cheaper if the SaaS is running hardware/software optimized for FFMpeg and your Rails app/db server that is hosting a Mastodon instance is not.
  - 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
    encoding is free
- capableweb 4y ago
  > how come this isn't being used by activitypub to offload server work? Because ActivityPub is the same thing as HTTP, a protocol for exchanging information. Basing a protocol around the idea that you send data to a closed-source platform goes against the whole idea of creating a open protocol in the first place. Not to mention it goes against the idea and culture behind Mastodon as well, as bunny.net doesn't seem to be FOSS at all.

2Gkashmiri 4y ago

https://bunny.net/stream/ https://bunny.net/stream/ how come this isn't being used by activitypub to offload server work? you dont even have to use ffmpeg, just dump the video directly and get encoded videos back... if your server is NOT running FFMPEG, that is potentially more resources available for actual server work

6yyyyyy 4y ago
Why would uploading the video to a SaSS, paying them to run FFmpeg, and downloading the result be cheaper than running FFmpeg yourself?
- jdminhbg 4y ago
  I don’t know if it actually is cheaper, but it certainly could be cheaper if the SaaS is running hardware/software optimized for FFMpeg and your Rails app/db server that is hosting a Mastodon instance is not.
- 2Gkashmiri 4y ago
  encoding is free
capableweb 4y ago
> how come this isn't being used by activitypub to offload server work? Because ActivityPub is the same thing as HTTP, a protocol for exchanging information. Basing a protocol around the idea that you send data to a closed-source platform goes against the whole idea of creating a open protocol in the first place. Not to mention it goes against the idea and culture behind Mastodon as well, as bunny.net doesn't seem to be FOSS at all.