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YSK: Lemmy has 53k monthly active users but only 1172 have ever donated (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 8 months ago by CowsLookLikeMaps@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/16660104

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[–] leanleft@lemmy.ml 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

i was once told to hotlink images from other hosters.. as opposed to uploading to lemmy. (to save on resources!)

[+] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works -12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Hotlinking is stealing. Besides servee owner could change the images your hotlinking to. Or he coukd delete it altogether

[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 11 points 8 months ago

Haha I remember seeing the geocities threats about hotlinking.

[–] nick@campfyre.nickwebster.dev 6 points 8 months ago

The web is built on hot linking hypermedia. It is more fragile obviously, but it distributes the bandwidth and storage load. If nobody hotlinked, then small forum admins/Lemmy admins/etc. have considerably more cost to bear.

[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 8 months ago

You wouldn’t download a jpeg

This meme is hotlinked, as God intended.

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If the server owner isn't fine with others hottlinking they can simply deny requests not related to there website(s). On that note, I hope you are donating to your instance, otherwise by your logic you are stealing there resources.

[–] sun_is_ra@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I hope you are donating to your instance, otherwise by your logic you are stealing there resources.

How is that my logic? Admins of my instance are fine with people using their instance without donation so there is nothing unethical here. If people must pay to use their instance then it can't be called "donation", it's called "payment".

If the server owner isn’t fine with others hottlinking they can simply deny requests

Can I use same logic to say if you are not fine with people robbing your home, you must lock your door?

[–] FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Admins of my instance are fine with people using their instance Fair enough, it appears they are completely happy for you to use up a small piece of there resources

If you can't be bothered to spend 5 minutes to put up the magical "do not use my resources" message (origin: Same-site) in your site's headers, then I think people would believe that using up a portion of your bandwidth is fine and act accordingly.