1 TB is more than enough for most people. I am wondering how they will stay in business. Who would pay for that second Terabyte?
Edit: they recently changed their free tier to 30 GB. That is still pretty generous. I knew they wouldn’t last giving away a free TB for everyone.
If it’s free, you are the product.
Yeah, encrypt your shit.
Even if I’ve got a septic system?
Especially if you’'ve got a septic system.
Lemmy is free.
Lemmy is not free. Not even close. Someone’s paying out of pocket to run the hardware and pay the upkeep.
You are just a guest here. Host your own and you can pay the bills instead of freeloading off someone.
That’s part of the entire point of this. It ain’t free, but if we all split the load of hosting enough then the cost becomes manageable across the entire community.
So that way one person or one company isn’t forced to find endless ways to make money to keep the lights on.
Yeah, good job, that’s totally what I meant.
So is reddit, and that place used to be awesome.
True. I don’t see the relevance though? On Reddit, we were indeed the product, unlike here.
The first hit is always free.
Not just the first hit in general but this also sounds likely to be a bait-and-switch. They will roll with that free 1TiB as long as they can for marketing and market capture. They have a few profit streams (ads, whales on bigger plans) to help cover those marketing costs. But most likely they will not be profitable and eventually will reduce/remove the free plan and try to upgrade as many users as possible to the paid plan (reducing costs and increasing revenue in one go).
its 100% going to be a bait and switch. It starts at 1TB, then it downgrades to a lower amount (seems like 30 GB), then eventually it will be downgraded even more. Eventually it will be under what you are utilizing and you will need to either upgrade your plan for a premium, or migrate your data elsewhere. They will be betting you would rather just pay the premium than move it elsewhere.
That’s how dropbox got as established as it did. High file storage linked to publicity, then they gutted the space given. photobucket attempted the same thing but their marketing fell through.
Chances are that they didn’t have anywhere near enough space to give everyone the full terabyte and they were gambling on not everyone needing all their allocated space.
I mean, it’s not hard to throw 64TB of drives into a server, set up RAID with some level of redundancy (let’s say something that gives 16TB apparent) and get it hosted in a data centre somewhere. If you’ve a thousand users all taking up no more than a few gigabytes each, you might not even fill it.
And if they bought those drives prior to the recent price hikes on all things storage, it might not even have cost them much. (I mean, the initial outlay even now wouldn’t break $10k.)
This is all catastrophically bad planning, yes, but businesses do this sort of thing all the time, even long after the start-up period where something so basic might make sense.
(And thus we see a likely reason why they’ve suddenly shrunk the free tier to a slightly more sensible value.)
They can also deduplicate files, so one file which is shared by multiple people (or even multiple people uploading the same file independently) only needs storing once.
Combine that with deduplicating file systems that will break fuels into chunks and if some of those are the same as another file, it will only get referenced, not stored twice. This then even works if two users upload the same file without sharing it. (Assuming files aren’t encrypted by the user)
Firm agree. When they do stuff like this, they are estimating demand. Even big companies aren’t expecting even a quarter of their users to use the full extent of their plans. they are estimating that a user will overestimate how much they need and buy a larger plan than necessary that way they have wiggle room without needing to find alternatives later. This practice is also why many companies start mass spamming you when your allotment gets over 60% used, they are betting that you will buy a larger plan to futureproof yourself on the platform, which also allows them to generally allow for higher base plans than needed so its usually a win/win for the storage company.
But in cases like this where the market gets shot and they have a super high influx of people who actually want to use the full extent, they need to take measures like stated where they drop the free plans allotment in favor of hoping people get pushed to the larger plan.
Just like every other modern day “cloud” platform on earth that you don’t personally host yourself, this is “how”.
I challenge-no- I dare you to read it. Especially people who have already signed up- you people especially.
Dang that’s actually a pretty non-bastardy privacy policy. Data sharing with consent for non-operational requirements, explicit consent for 3rd party providers, minimal/no retention for non-operational information. Like it’s not great but it’s orders of magnitude better than, say, google drive.
I mean, I don’t use it but, that seems like a fairly ok privacy page compared to the other storage vendors. It’s stated outside of using third party services such as AI optimization and sharing your info, it stays within their company only.
They may share infastructure with other venders, but they make it pretty clear your info stays with them unless you agree otherwise.
The only part I’m really super against is the fact that they are logging your clipboard when you use shared links, that seems like a pretty bad violation of privacy but, everything else seems pretty reasonable for a file storage host.
The only thing it seems they are sharing is analytics/labels and stuff that you give them permission to share by using specific features they provide.
Hey if you’re okay with it and actually read it, more power to you.
This is actually one of the better privacy policies I’ve read
It’s a temporary offer to acquire customers.
I thought a terrabyte drive on my wifes machine would be more than enough but she proved me wrong.
