The company wants to charge for API access. Its volunteer moderators have other ideas

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    1 year ago

    To reiterate what I said in the last paragraph;

    Once you find an instance you like (good ping, good performance, good admin) all the content across all the instances is there, barring any defederation. Which communities are local to the instance is not normally a selection criteria.

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      1 year ago

      That’s not true from a technical point of view. A remote subscriber is way more expensive than a local one, so on the technical side it’s better when everyone signs up on the server where most of their communities are.

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        1 year ago

        That may be true, but most of the communities I’m subscribed to are remote. I’ve not experienced any issue at all. In fact I’m getting your reply pretty much instantaneously and I’m on lemm.ee in the USA and you’re on feddit.de in Germany.