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[–] 14 points 2 years ago (11 children)

I don't ever see a server like that standing up to popularity.

In early days, you could maybe get 100 people interested in your site, and that was really cool - it might mean you have to get a second spare computer to load balance. But now, you go beyond 30 people interested, and you'll have an army of bots scraping the site, people re-hosting anything interesting you made (animations, videos) on YouTube and TikTok so there's no reason to go to you, and someone deciding to DDOS you for the hell of it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Why do you want the traffic to specifically go to your own server? That's reasoning backward imo.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Let say you made your own claymation animations. If people go to your own site, they get no ads, and can choose to buy merch from you if they like. However, a common issue for a creator like that would be content thieves with an ad plan. They’d reupload to YouTube, claim it as their own, monetize ads, and maybe the people who see the first animations there don’t even hear about new ones. It’s a bad deal for everyone now (not even YouTube’s fault - it’s the fault of the number of bots, DDOS tools, and click farms on the internet)

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