▲ 596 ▼ @pixelfed: Loops is a new platform for sharing short videos, and it's open source + federated Using #ActivityPub (mastodon.social) submitted 2 years ago by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world 73 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[+] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) [deleted] permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] MrRawRats@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) I strongly disagree on that point. Preservation of the internet is extremely important for cultural and historical reasons. Just look at the enormous amount of old websites stored on the internet archive and how helpful as well as culturally significant that preservation effort is. And that is only a drop in the ocean compared to how big the internet actually is. Yes preserving stuff, especially video, takes enormous amounts of data and is hard but is well worth the effort in the end. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) but is well worth the effort in the end. That's easily said when you don't have to supply the effort or pay the hosting bill. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) takes enormous amounts of data and is hard Seems like this was acknowledged, but a good point nonetheless (that's often overlooked). I'm currently sitting on 4TB of data (that's largely movies and TV shows), running on 4-year-old hardware, with 3 local replicants, backed up to cloud. My power and cloud costs are trivial - about 25 cents a day - that's less than $100/year (after hardware costs, which come out to about $150/year to continue with similar performance levels). My 4 year old "server" idles at about 20 watts. I can probably bring this down to perhaps 10w with a newer NUC or similar. I could easily store everything my extended family produces (including cousins, about 50 people) with a similar setup. In fact, I'm working on just such a project - an SFF or NUC type device with sufficient. Edit: autocorrect changed $100 to $10 permalink fedilink source parent [–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago Man, same on the point about YouTube shorts ruining my attention span. The only thing keeping me from an addiction, I feel, is a feeling of guilt when watching shorts instead of long form content. Whenever I do watch long form content it ends up being more fulfilling and entertaining, too, so I have no idea why our brains are so biased towards short form content. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] MrRawRats@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 child) I strongly disagree on that point. Preservation of the internet is extremely important for cultural and historical reasons. Just look at the enormous amount of old websites stored on the internet archive and how helpful as well as culturally significant that preservation effort is. And that is only a drop in the ocean compared to how big the internet actually is. Yes preserving stuff, especially video, takes enormous amounts of data and is hard but is well worth the effort in the end. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) but is well worth the effort in the end. That's easily said when you don't have to supply the effort or pay the hosting bill. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) takes enormous amounts of data and is hard Seems like this was acknowledged, but a good point nonetheless (that's often overlooked). I'm currently sitting on 4TB of data (that's largely movies and TV shows), running on 4-year-old hardware, with 3 local replicants, backed up to cloud. My power and cloud costs are trivial - about 25 cents a day - that's less than $100/year (after hardware costs, which come out to about $150/year to continue with similar performance levels). My 4 year old "server" idles at about 20 watts. I can probably bring this down to perhaps 10w with a newer NUC or similar. I could easily store everything my extended family produces (including cousins, about 50 people) with a similar setup. In fact, I'm working on just such a project - an SFF or NUC type device with sufficient. Edit: autocorrect changed $100 to $10 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 7 points 2 years ago (1 child) but is well worth the effort in the end. That's easily said when you don't have to supply the effort or pay the hosting bill. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) takes enormous amounts of data and is hard Seems like this was acknowledged, but a good point nonetheless (that's often overlooked). I'm currently sitting on 4TB of data (that's largely movies and TV shows), running on 4-year-old hardware, with 3 local replicants, backed up to cloud. My power and cloud costs are trivial - about 25 cents a day - that's less than $100/year (after hardware costs, which come out to about $150/year to continue with similar performance levels). My 4 year old "server" idles at about 20 watts. I can probably bring this down to perhaps 10w with a newer NUC or similar. I could easily store everything my extended family produces (including cousins, about 50 people) with a similar setup. In fact, I'm working on just such a project - an SFF or NUC type device with sufficient. Edit: autocorrect changed $100 to $10 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) takes enormous amounts of data and is hard Seems like this was acknowledged, but a good point nonetheless (that's often overlooked). I'm currently sitting on 4TB of data (that's largely movies and TV shows), running on 4-year-old hardware, with 3 local replicants, backed up to cloud. My power and cloud costs are trivial - about 25 cents a day - that's less than $100/year (after hardware costs, which come out to about $150/year to continue with similar performance levels). My 4 year old "server" idles at about 20 watts. I can probably bring this down to perhaps 10w with a newer NUC or similar. I could easily store everything my extended family produces (including cousins, about 50 people) with a similar setup. In fact, I'm working on just such a project - an SFF or NUC type device with sufficient. Edit: autocorrect changed $100 to $10 permalink fedilink source parent
[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 3 points 2 years ago Man, same on the point about YouTube shorts ruining my attention span. The only thing keeping me from an addiction, I feel, is a feeling of guilt when watching shorts instead of long form content. Whenever I do watch long form content it ends up being more fulfilling and entertaining, too, so I have no idea why our brains are so biased towards short form content. permalink fedilink source parent