I got super stoned thinking about how much wasted data (storage, traffic) occurs from sharing memes.
For example: the same meme may be hosted in a thousand places.
Multiply that by billions of images and videos.
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Sometimes I think about this.
Im old enough to remember when reddit didnt have image access and you had to click the link to go to the other resource. like imgr and such. It acutally forced traffic onto other websites. It wasnt a bad thing to simplify the process, but eventually reddit started...owning the content. Like even images were "owned" by the algorithm. Which had copyright strikes etc..etc...
Now we on the fedi are capable of directly posting from other platforms and interacting with them. Feels nice.
The federation protocol is HTOF. It stands for Having Terminally Online Friends.
I think at that point the term is liberate.
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