fishynoob

I'm not a bot and TOTL expands to "top of the line"

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I came to know about this from another post and so far it seems like an awesome idea

The reason to host your own instances is altruism. You help out the community with decentralisation and also absorb some of the bandwidth and storage costs from other instances. This is necessary for the Fediverse to survive.

In your own comment you mentioned making it harder for the general public. If you think your comments might have had any value for anyone looking for answers, well now they can't read any of your material, through no fault of their own. All the while Meta, OpenAI and Google strike back-handed deals with Reddit to steal your data.

In the end, you're hurting the innocent internet user whilst not doing anything against the big giants. Do you truly not see the problem?

Case in point, you assumed anyone's only possible threat would be Reddit, without considering it could be random jackasses.

I don't understand. Unless someone posts private information on Reddit, how is Reddit part of their threat model? And posting such information on a capital-hungry platform means they have already given up their privacy to data brokers willingly. Sure maybe the script kiddie won't be able to scrape your SSN from the internet but is that really the solace you're looking for?

As to your final line: yes, a lack of content on Reddit will move people to alternate platforms. But there's still A LOT OF CONTENT that is not present on Lemmy, Kbin, Mastodon etc and if everybody starts acting like you then all of that knowledge will be lost. At this point, if your comments held any value for the general public, all you've done is deprive the average lurker. Is that what you want?

That makes it harder for people who might have benefitted from your solutions, but doesn't do anything to prevent Reddit or OpenAI from accessing them. I don't see a point

Thanks man, that would be much appreciated

Thanks, looking forward to it

Thanks. I don't see the content of the blogs in the feed, just the title - but maybe that's a problem with my reader (I use Capy on Android). I'll try a couple of other readers to see if it works

You got an RSS feed for me?

Any company that makes affordable washing machines without connecting to the cloud?