Reddit, accused of trying to kill third-party apps, is cutting 5% of workforce.
  • narc0tic_bird@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    2 years ago

    At $0.24 per 1,000 API calls, this must be the most inefficient backend code to ever exist if that’s “fair pricing” as opposed to ridiculous pricing.

    • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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      2 years ago

      no no, it’s the apps that are inefficient. I mean, I’m staring at my Lemmy instance and I’m pretty sure that the thousands of requests I’ve taken in have warranted…

      Nope, it’s cost me maybe a penny so far running it.

      • andrew@radiation.partyEnglish
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        2 years ago

        To be fair, Reddit operates on a much larger scale even for small subs

        Not playing devils advocate, but the burden of hosting lemmy is not comparable today

        • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
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          2 years ago

          Totally fair, massive databases, multiple levels of APIs, hooks, events, thousands of CPU cores and thousands of gigs of ram. I was being snarky.

          However, still doesn’t even come close to justifying that cost