• Jrockwar@feddit.uk
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      23 hours ago

      Yes I do. I’m totally the one who can’t understand that “free” is a nuanced concept and something can be free when there are costs but they are externalised.

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        21 hours ago

        And yet you can’t fathom the difference between hosting and maintaining something, versus consuming something.

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          20 hours ago

          Enlighten me, why do you think I can’t tell the difference? Is it because as a maintainer I want to provide something for free? Do you see “consumers” of free content as leeches?

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            20 hours ago

            Because you think hosting Lemmy yourself is the same monetary cost as doing a Google search.

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              18 hours ago

              You’re funny. 😂 What I actually think is that your mind reading skills are terrible because I never said anything even remotely similar to that.

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                18 hours ago

                Don’t run it on a raspberry pi, run it on the same computer you use to access the Google search you are happy to call “free”.

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                  17 hours ago

                  I (rather obviously) am talking there about the Google search service, not a single query, as Google doesn’t disappear after a single query.

                  I’m not sure what you’re pointing at though? Surely hosting Google search is more expensive than hosting Lemmy when you’re insinuating otherwise?

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                    17 hours ago

                    Surely hosting Google search is more expensive than hosting Lemmy when you’re insinuating otherwise?

                    You’ve got it backwards.

                    How do I host Lemmy on my iPhone? How do I host it on a Library computer?