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This is the way to do it.

all of these features are on-demand

none of the things you don’t [need] (such as user data harvesting, ads & tracking).

Choice of leading LLM models from all the leading providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Mistral, …)

All threads are private by default, retained only as long as you want and subscriber data is not used for training models

Yeah I think you got the numbers crossed there :D

I think a lot of people start up a server because at the time it fits with what they want to do. Once you realize this is not a job (correct description) you wanted to take on it becomes much harder to motivate it.

As soon as you run a server for others outside of the immediate friends/family circle it can be really difficult to deal with the expectations of uptime and service. Also, some don’t want to ask for help but also take on all the moderation themselves too.

@seb@ioc.exchange publishes the costs for ioc.exchange:

Servers are hosted at Linode and hosting costs are around $300/month. Media files are hosted in AWS S3 and the costs are around $50/month. So in total our running costs are about $350/month.

Unfortunately the donations still don’t cover it.

This is your regular reminder that our hosting costs are roughly $350 per month. In the last 30 days you all have contributed $216. Thank you very much for everyone who has contributed - You are awesome!

edit: User numbers from fedidb: 1,737 MAU, 26,315 total.

What has argument from authority to do with facts?

You only get posts from those you subscribe to. That’s the “pull” part.

Why would I subscribe to a fake account pushing ads?

Please think your argument through at a technical level. How would Meta be able to push posts-masking-as-users to only non-EU citizens?

The simple answer is that no, there’s no way Meta can push ads into clients and/or servers that aren’t under their control. They also don’t need to - Threads is much bigger than the Mastodon-part of the fediverse.

And?

They’re already training on that data. No signals of relevance here.

Of course it does. The EU is such a big market that Meta cannot afford to do that.

As I have already posted elsewhere in this thread, if they post ads as a user they would get shut down by the EU immediately.

Any other suggestions?

No.

Please post one of those ways and I’ll shoot it down.

Sure, but that cannot happen here.

They can do that no matter if I federate with them or not.

My bad - I misread. Yeah that’s a good point.

Why would you subscribe to those? Or are you claiming they would post ads as if they are from a user? In the latter case - the EU would shut them down before they even had time to deploy that.

Well sure - but you need to actively subscribe (e.g. pull).

Lots of OSS is created by people who want to create something, and happily gives it away to others too.

The problem is when others start depending, and demanding, work from that person. There is no good solution to that problem at the moment.

They can’t place ads in your feeds.