Kushan

I think you're making quite a big leap with that statement with very little to back it up. Once (if) a working Fusion reactor design is finalised, then manufacturing will ramp up and the quality of those components will only improve. Until we have that final design though, it's impossible to make claims about how expensive maintenance will be.

I'm seeing the same thing, also in Firefox but I suspect it'll happen on any browser. I'm with you, I think it's because it keeps loading in new posts but doesn't unload the old ones. It's probably an easy fix

Big instances surfing up content from smaller instances is invariably going to cripple them unless larger instances start locally caching that content.

That's true if of any power plant though. It'll still be cheaper and safer (if it ever works).

The main goal of these sites is link aggregation. It wouldn't be overly difficult for a federated server with its own /c/Technology community to see other posts from other communities linking to the same thing and combining the discussions into a single view.

The tricky part there is moderation, but even that's manageable by allowing moderators to remove content from a federated view within their own instance, it'll just be difficult when a small instance is dwarfed by a larger one.

This won't be possible. Best you can do is use something like waybackmachine to get a cached version of the page.

Freedom of speech is never freedom of consequence. And if that consequence is that nobody wants to listen to you, well that's on you.

What could be more important than being a shitty person?

I think this is true but I think it has always been the case. The question is were there more bots than usual and I'm unconvinced there was.

https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

There's a bit of a gap in the data but despite some subs coming back online, it seems the number of comments has more or less stayed at the levels of the last 2 days.

I'm aware, what I am getting at is that there's multiple "Right" answers to solving what is essentially a very difficult problem.

Nobody really knows, but I personally don't think there were any more bots on Monday than there was a week earlier. It's a nice story that users dropped with the subs going dark, but I think it might be wishful thinking on our part. To my knowledge there's zero evidence to suggest that they were mostly bots.