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Pixelfed: The operational costs now exceed $4k USD vs. $1,465 from Patreon
- yladiz 2y ago$4k seems like a lot, I wonder why it costs so much.
- 2Gkashmiri 2y agoimage hosting/video IMO
- jazzyjackson 2y agoFrom reading the comments they've prioritized ease of onboarding vs encouraging federation. I wonder if they could save some bandwidth with webtorrent
- sschueller 2y agoThen they should fix the official android app. When you open it you are promoted with a login button. That is it, no intro, no guest mode, just a login button.
- Permik 2y agoAt that scale? I think it might honestly be just bandwidth, I'd offload picture data to cloudflare R2 as there's no egress fees.
- dialup_sounds 2y agoThe Pixelfed homepage and "support our project" page both have a banner directing people to a Kickstarter that's almost 200% funded. I wonder if they've cannibalized their own donations by steering people there.
- ChrisArchitect 2y agoRelated: Pixelfed Hit 500K Users https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42821519 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42821519