+1 here. If growth slows and donations drop, the instance needs some savings to continue operating, or if another server upgrade is needed with a large capital expense. Not everything is OpEx.

Spez is just trying to get that bag and run.

“Guys this is a democracy I promise. Just do your jobs and don’t complain, speak out, or vote against anything we say. You guys totally still are stakeholders in this platform though. Please volunteer more of your time so we can monetize your free content. Thanks!” - Reddit Admins

I love the irony of him calling Reddit a democracy while also refusing to budge on the API issue. You can’t have it both ways.

Great to hear that there is a dialog open between the admins. Hopefully it is all sorted swiftly. Federating with all of the large instances is important for the continued growth of the platform.

I’m also on gmail. Haven’t had any issues with it, no real desire to change.

They’ve really been dropping the ball lately. Especially with the SSL-VPN component. This is especially troubling considering I’ve had to implement emergency patches several times for this flaw on my own boxes.

My college bedroom consisted of a mattress on the floor, and that same floor functioned great as a nightstand. This here is fancy!

Nope. It can’t really be self hosted anymore, as having a residential IP is a straight track to the spam folder. It can be done if you also pay for a mail relay service, but then what’s the point of self hosting when you need to rely on a cloud service anyways.

Oops! You clicked on a simulated phishing test.

Saw this one over on /r/cybersecurity and just goes to show why you should always have healthy skepticism for new closed source applications with wild claims.

Not surprised. They need to milk every last drop of revenue from their users free content for the upcoming IPO.