Anthony Sorace on Nostr: I’ve never run a service at Reddit’s scale, so I suppose it’s possible I’m ...
I’ve never run a service at Reddit’s scale, so I suppose it’s possible I’m missing something, but is their claim that supporting Apollo costs them ~$20M/year even remotely plausible? I mean in two ways:
1) Just raw costs, that’s a massive amount of network traffic and database & app server time. Seems just absurdly high. Am I wrong?
2) Regardless, isn’t that mostly the cost of having those users? Why would using Reddit’s own app not incur the same costs? Do they just… not want that traffic?
1) Just raw costs, that’s a massive amount of network traffic and database & app server time. Seems just absurdly high. Am I wrong?
2) Regardless, isn’t that mostly the cost of having those users? Why would using Reddit’s own app not incur the same costs? Do they just… not want that traffic?