dylan@lemmy.ml to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agoReddit insists on being “fairly paid” amid API price protest plans, layoffsarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square32fedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down10cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up168arrow-down1external-linkReddit insists on being “fairly paid” amid API price protest plans, layoffsarstechnica.comdylan@lemmy.ml to Technology@beehaw.orgEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square32fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squarenarc0tic_bird@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·1 year agoAt $0.24 per 1,000 API calls, this must be the most inefficient backend code to ever exist if that’s “fair pricing” as opposed to ridiculous pricing.
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·1 year agono no, it’s the apps that are inefficient. I mean, I’m staring at my Lemmy instance and I’m pretty sure that the thousands of requests I’ve taken in have warranted… Nope, it’s cost me maybe a penny so far running it.
minus-squareandrewAlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 year agoTo be fair, Reddit operates on a much larger scale even for small subs Not playing devils advocate, but the burden of hosting lemmy is not comparable today
minus-squareScrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 year agoTotally fair, massive databases, multiple levels of APIs, hooks, events, thousands of CPU cores and thousands of gigs of ram. I was being snarky. However, still doesn’t even come close to justifying that cost
At $0.24 per 1,000 API calls, this must be the most inefficient backend code to ever exist if that’s “fair pricing” as opposed to ridiculous pricing.
no no, it’s the apps that are inefficient. I mean, I’m staring at my Lemmy instance and I’m pretty sure that the thousands of requests I’ve taken in have warranted…
Nope, it’s cost me maybe a penny so far running it.
To be fair, Reddit operates on a much larger scale even for small subs
Not playing devils advocate, but the burden of hosting lemmy is not comparable today
Totally fair, massive databases, multiple levels of APIs, hooks, events, thousands of CPU cores and thousands of gigs of ram. I was being snarky.
However, still doesn’t even come close to justifying that cost
nope, their pricing is ridiculous lol.