What a piece of junk. Tesla surely can’t survive this amount of bad press and boycotts. Hopefully.

Thanks for the suggestion.

They aren’t, all their server does is handle the login authentication afaik, and then streaming happens directly from the server to the user.

Here, I fixed it:

The reality is that we need more resourcesmoney to continue putting forth the best personal media experienceincrease our profit margins.

lmao me either

We have a human vetted application process too and that’s why there’s rarely any bots or spam accounts originating from our instance. I imagine it’s a similar situation for programming.dev. It’s just not worth the tradeoff to have completely open signups imo. The last thing lemmy needs is a massive influx of Meta users from threads, facebook or instagram, or from shitter. Slow, organic growth is completely fine when you don’t have shareholders and investors to answer to.