LukeNov 1, 2022
so what do we feel about memes? like good fun? kinda edgy? or just no?
Show threadOpenDNA⚙️Nov 2, 2022
@Luke Memes are fun but rather resource-heavy, so best to be conscientious about how we use them. We'd hate to see nodes fail because we meme'd too hard.
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@opendna great point, its it just gifs that are burdensome or pictures as well?
Nov 2, 2022 at 12:42pmWeb
Show threadOpenDNA⚙️Nov 2, 2022

@Luke It's function of file size. So photos are bad but animated gifs are worse (and video worse still).

The most popular reaction GIF - "And I Oop" - is 4.657MB. That works out to 214.7 copies per GB, or ~$0.02 (USD) each on a cut-rate cloud storage service.

Your header JPG is 147kb, which works out to $0.0007.

Show threadOpenDNA⚙️Nov 2, 2022

@Luke On self-hosted single-instances, it may not matter, but the cost scales with users.

For mastodon,social today - 154k users - all the header pics cost ~$90 but one copy of "And I Oop" each would be ~$2800.

So, yeah, if we're going to have memes and reaction GIFs, we're going to want to sort out the shared storage server soon.