Newgrounds is considering adding activitypub support but is concerned about hosting fees for serving images to millions of people

TIL the flash animation I made in 2004 is still available on Newgrounds.
https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/201157
- I'm pretty sure you're the most famous person to use Lemmy. Well besides Margot Robbie
  
  31k views on Newgrounds. I’m basically the Taylor Swift of Lemmy.
- Talk about nostalgia fuel lol
  
  User name checks out
- Newgrounds is dead serious about preserving its content, even with the death of Flash. Ruffle, the Flash emulator, was created by a former employee and Newgrounds is a major sponsor of the project. The most important movies have been converted to video as well.
  When Newgrounds adopted high-resolution thumbnails about a decade and a half ago, there was a big volunteer campaign to recreate thumbnails for the entire back catalogue of the portal.
  Thanks to Ruffle, people can and are still submitting Flash content to the portal, in addition to web-friendly content!
- yo, this is straight fire
- fuck I started leaning to program in flash specifically because of videos like this.
  
  Actionscript 2 was the shit
- Oh my god. I can't get the song out of my head now! Sweet Jesus what have you done to me?!
- Love it lol. That banana phone song was a blast from the past.
- Omg mine too (too embarrassing to share).
  I forgot how much more patient with pacing we all used to be back in the 00s. Just trusting that the video would go somewhere and there'd be a payoff.
  Looking at some of the popular videos from back then, people these days would just scroll away because nothing hooked their attention quickly enough. Myself included. We've been trained to expect such quick payoff 😭.
  Fuck, now I'ma have to go check on my old deviantart account.
- Its jot newgrounds if it doesn't end in violence ❤️

TIL Newgrounds still exists.
- Not only does it still exist, newgrounds is unique in that it is a long-running website from the early days that is still being run by the same person (never bought out or sold), still has no ads (despite funding issues), still has the same basic focus, still hosting the same content, and is still more or less exactly the same despite some UI changes.
  Granted part of that is there hasn't been any real pressure on it, but still.
  Genuinely, it is the kind of thing that I would want to put behind glass, because it is an abnormality in this wasteland we call the internet. It's this beautiful little corner that has been allowed to remain as it is, unmolested by the terrible bullshit around it.
  
  It's feels like it's the only site where the algorithm doesn't kill animators.
  
  Shit, am I about to become a newgrounds user again after like 15 years?
- I assume the success of Friday Night Funkin' gave it some extra life.
  
  There's also a lot of porn

Newgrounds would be awesome in the Fediverse tbh, would bring so much content (beyond politics and news).
Image hosting seems to be super problematic with activity pub, especially with something pf Newgrounds' size. I'm super invested in this, can't wait to see where it'll go.

Not to mention that fediverse software still loves to occasionally hug of death a server when you post links, heh.
(Post federates to lots of servers, and lots of servers pull images/previews all at more or less once.)
- Quick, someone post "Cascade" from Homestuck and bring down the entire fediverse.
- Perhaps for images they'd have to federate just the text and a small thumbnail, and then just the people interested would click through. I wonder if that'd be enough.
  @schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business @fediverse@lemmy.world

So we need better federated hosting...
- I'd love to be able to "seed" the fediverse through p2p hosting of some sort. I'd set aside 1 TB of storage and 20 MB/s for that.
  
  Yeah I've thought a tiny bit about this but it gets dodgy with things like csam.
  How do we address some one uploading stuff that would get you arrested?
- That makes total sense. And I would guess decentralized hosting or federated hosting couldn't meet this need?

I’d donate a few dollars a month. Newgrounds is a great content creation space. I still play games there from time to time. The Mario 63 game is off the wall. Dead Estate is also a fantastic retro style shooter like the ones I remember from my childhood. I think places like this need to survive.

Hell Yeah, Newgrounds is blocked in my country. But if they added Activity Pub it will solve the problem for me.
- What country blocks new grounds of all things?
  
  India
- It would just federate comments I think, you'd still need to go to the site for the media

The Problems of Tomorrow, Today!
- Oh man, I miss that shit so much heh heh

"Millions of people" if only...
- Mastodon has a couple million ADUs
  
  Are you sure about that? Joinmastodon indicates 819k MAU, would you have a source you can share ?

but is concerned about hosting fees for serving images to millions of people
People stopped caring about image bandwidth decades ago. Try wrangling a video-hosting problem, like PeerTube does.

I missing the hamsters and dancing Jesus.

so like not share the videos peertube style? just the art section of the site?

hasnt this already been solved with cdns? even if you just use it for the image hosting.
- Those cost money too
  
  shit costs money. cant imagine wanting to stand up a server/instance/whatevs with no hosting costs.

Can't they just not allow anyone on their server? Like read-only while people talk about it from other servers?
- Reading still requires distributing media

Omg that would be peak 🥹
Edit: autocorrect :/