The problem is you’d need to split it down to an amount that people would be happy hosting and then host it multiple times in case any node goes offline.

Another comment in the thread says it’s likely over 100PB today (100,000 terabytes). I’d say 4 copies (spread over different time zones) is a relatively minimal level of redundancy (people may host on machines that aren’t powered all the time), and I reckon you’d get a network with the most participants, whilst still getting enough storage, at around the 150gb per node mark.

That comes to nearly 3 million participants needed just to cover today’s archive, new people will obviously need to join every day. Also given I imagine it would need to be open to all, the redundancy level could do with increasing to avoid malicious actors with a lot of resources taking on a lot of the network and forcing it all offline at once in an effort to cause data loss

Nothing here is insurmountable, but also not remotely easy

ActivityPub seems like the wrong tool for this job

You’re more looking for a decentralised distributed file system/object store as the base for this.

And it’s going to require a lot of participants in the network to get to the storage capacity and redundancy necessary for it to function well

Good, hopefully they’ve also covered any loopholes where it gets funneled through a local organisation

Edit: oh nice, they’ve put a total limit on contributions that can be received by a party regardless of origin. Very cool. That is how you run a civilised country.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen Swedish fish outside of America

There’s only one fediverse, everyone doesn’t have to talk to each other

It’s the modern day Mensa right?

People who pay to become a part of an group perceived as elite by idiots

This is great news, hopefully the ball keeps rolling until it becomes the norm

Yeah that was kinda my point

Well, that’s kind of intuitively true in perpetuity

An effective gate for AI becomes a focus of optimisation

Any effective gate with a motivation to pass will become ineffective after a time, on some level it’s ultimately the classic “gotta be right every time Vs gotta be right once” dichotomy—certainty doesn’t exist.

Techy people are a lot more likely to jump through a couple of hoops for something better, compared to your average Joe who isn’t even aware of the problem

I was thinking the same, I’m 99% certain Trump required his name to be included in the welcome back message as a condition for not implementing the ban.

It’s very poorly written theatre

Of course they do. This was always the trajectory.

The idea of everyone being able to have a job is rapidly coming to an end.

The increased competition for the remaining work is going to drive wages and salaries down.

All of the wealth generated by the automation will end up hyper concentrated amongst the new aristocracy of capitalist conglomerate owners.

We need a new economic system yesterday if we have any hope of avoiding this particular flavour of dystopia

No UBI is not the solution, it’s a last resort to be used to quell violent revolution when three quarters of people can’t afford to exist.

And no, the luddite approach won’t work here either, Pandora’s box was opened long ago

What was that 12h?

Is trump even president yet?

Wait omfg what

Edit: doesn’t change the button arrangement, but still—I’m getting one

Edit 2: wait it does! It just has the original buttons too

You’ve made my day mate

Assuming you mean hosting stuff on a VPS or similar, I think the Lemmy selfhosting communities consider that also self hosting on some level.

If you more meant for commercial hosting, there’s no harm in asking, I’d wager a fair few people subscribed probably work in the industry.

If you meant the behind the scenes stuff of running a hosting provider, you might have a little less luck, but you never know

I was about to take umbrage with that on behalf of millennials, but tbh we are a mess—not entirely through our own doing, of course—but definitely a mess.

Con man? CEO? Hedge fund manager?

But seriously, generally anything having an exponential return in this world is pretty unusual and generally not guaranteed if it’s a desirable outcome.

Particularly in a capitalist economy, the business only has to pay you just enough to not leave for a competitor, they don’t need to pay you the true value of your ability unless you’re basically the only person on the planet with the necessary skills.

On the flip side, in booming industries that require specific skills such as tech, you can generally get a pretty linear progression for a while before it plateaus in a good number of organisations.

It’s called Microsoft 365 now

Office 365 was when it was just a business productivity suite

They renamed it when they pivoted it to a general subscription and started adding things like clipchamp.

I mentioned in another comment though that I agree it would be silly to mess with the professional skus, but the home & family ones would make perfect sense to offer as an option at the very least (just as they’re offering 365 without copilot for the time being).

I’m also not saying get rid of the independent subscriptions for Xbox, that would also be silly.

Just that a merged one would make a lot of sense for the people out there paying for both (which I reckon is a good number in the family subscription category at least)

Sure and it would be silly to mess with the professional tiers

But personal and family subscriptions are fairly squarely positioned towards non-business users as their main demographics, from what I can see.

If they actually bundled a game pass subscription with it and made a proper Microsoft complete subscription they could have softened the bad press they’re getting on this (and giving customers something they’ve wanted for a while)

That and the fact that they’ve nearly doubled the price of the subscription to add a limited credit based feature just looks pretty slimy