Comment on So admins, hows your instances looking today?

breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• limonfiesta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I hope you’re not under the impression that Lemmy is about privacy, because it’s not.

  Arguably it’s even less private than Reddit, as at least Reddit has some sort of controls on who can access your data i.e. whoever pays.

  But on Lemmy that’s free with federation, maybe not the same granular tracking data, but still enough of your personal data tonight be considered a privacy centric service.

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  • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    tbf reddit prolly tracks more data through their app (post view time, view count, cancelled posts, etc)

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  • meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Reddit has some sort of controls on who can access your data

    What data?

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    • limonfiesta@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      All of the data you generate when using Reddit…posts, comments, view tracking, voting, subreddit subscriptions, etc.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        You mean reddit’s data

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I agree.

  I bet some people/entities use S3 buckets, SQL, etc…etc… just one offs for certain services. AWS can be the cheaper option. But you get what you paid for…

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• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I never even heard of AWS before today. What is it?

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  • countrypunk@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Amazon web services. They are one of the biggest providers for hosting things. A lot of the internet infrastructure uses aws.

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  • TheFogan@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It’s called amazon web services.

    In short there’s 3 major cloud providers

    Amazon Web Services

    Google Cloud Platform

    Microsoft Azure

    All 3 basically do the same thing, real simplified version of it. it’s kind of a giant pool of server resources that are leased to you by demand. So say if you are netflix and have 100 million people watching the day a new series drops, but then only have 1 million watching tuesday night, they pay based on how much is currently being used, rather than having to set everything to handle peak, but be idle 90% of the time.

    again yeah it’s expensive for most purposes… and one can argue how bad it is on the whole, but it is kind of what most companies have been using for a lot of things for the last 15 years.

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