Yikes… I had no idea that Blurt had to pay so much for image storage… how is this being paid now ?
What is cost per month ! $1,000 ? $100,000 ????
Do our small posting fees pay for this ?
RE: Possible new methods for Blurt image storage
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afaik, the individual server operators pay for it themselves.
Who would that be ? Megadrive ? Saboin etc ?
They pay this out of pocket ? Or need to sell Blurt to pay the monthly fees ? Who is paying for this ?
I do not have a Staff list yet, so I'm not even sure who are the exact people in the Blurt Foundation or DAO.
Right now, it's just me and @megadrive. I operate the infrastructure, he takes care of the financial stuff.
The founders were @jacobgadikian, @baabeetaa, and @megadrive. @baabeetaa left to work on other projects of his, so did Jacob. When Jacob left, I came in to replace him. He was running the infrastructure and taking care of GitLab and those kinds of things.
I'm not a programmer by trade; it's just something that I do as a hobby. That's why we hire outside help when it comes to bigger projects. I could do more software development, but I don't have much time because I have a full time job and a personal business, neither of which have anything to do with computer programming.
I was in the process of rewriting our image services (the proxy, the uploader, and the server). If you can do what you're talking about in this post, I might not have to rewrite the whole thing. I might just do the image proxy and call it a day.
Right now, I'm just using a custom version of Nginx setup as an S3 gateway to serve the images.
Edit: What I meant is that it's just me and @megadrive left of the "management" so to speak. There are other team members who do various things. I don't intend to make it sound like it's just the two of us doing everything. We have a team that handles social media posts on traditional social media, and they also work on marketing Blurt. They came up with the new logo that we have now. There are a few people helping with the RPC nodes. I wrote a small program that monitors the nodes and alerts us whenever one of the nodes goes down, and there are four of us all in different time zones that can attend to them whenever needed.
Thanx for the clarification Saboin, much appreciated. 💪
I/we would love to assist with dev and linux/nginx servers, it's what we do.
Our hosting division is at https://agori.host if you want to have a look. We can physically walk up to our servers, so they are not AWS, DO, etc. We also containerize everything, use ansible, zabbix monitoring, minio for real-time offsite s3 distributed infrastructure, and webmin. All FOSS of course.
As far as dev, we do it all. Everything from C and C++ to Nextjs, react, angular and the like. We keep our public repos on git.agorise.net and npmjs.com.
I've been slowing investing in Blurt myself (ken code) as I firmly believe this is a new home for me. If you guys would like to have a call and discuss our ideas, I'm with you. I only use matrix encrypted calls tho, hope that's ok. I can be reached thru the Blurt matrix room any time (I live in acapulco, mx btw) at:
https://matrix.to/#/#blurt:matrix.org
As for marketing, I suck at that, like seriously sucky. So, hopefully the stuff I am releasing on Blurt can get some love from the marketing types and community. 🙏
You can find out on the Blurt Discord …. It’s mostly @saboin and @angelica7 I believe ….
Maybe @nalexadre ? @beblurt ??
Ask here : https://discord.gg/jMPmA37R
I wish discord peeps would start using matrix protocol, or session, etc. Those massive centralised companies like discord, fedbook, twitter etc won't be around much longer imo, as they're all going bankrupt (let alone my security concerns).
We don't need to dox anyone, but at least their primary blurt usernames would be nice for some better accountability and transparency. Like a Team page or something for the blurt.foundation website that also shows the dapps in the blurt ecosystem, api's available, our git, our official social media pages, etc.
I just prefer to have massive transparency so that new users and investors can see what's going on. @blurtofficial for example, hasn't posted any updates in over 4 months. Community updates imo need to happen at least once/month.
I agree 100% ….. but I’m also not a fan of running apps or d apps on my devices. Is Matrix an App ?
I think that everything is being run by @saboin these days…. At least keeping all the servers up and running …
There might be 2 or 3 other developers but I think they prefer to be completely anonymous. To avoid the Hive Downvoting Club …
I’m just a crypto agnostic blogger on Blurt, Steemit and Hive (pepe, meme etc ) I even collect free TRON
Matrix is a protocol.
Just use their web ui: https://matrix.to/#/#blurt:matrix.org (element.io is the actual url).
The blurt gitlab page shows me who is contributing and committing code, but who is in this foundation is a mystery to me and it shouldn't be. I'd really like for us to have an official team page and such.
As far as I can tell the Official Blurt foundation are the following ….
@megadrive
@jacobgadikian
@saboin
@angelica7
@symbionts
Others ??? I’m not sure anymore
At least those are the ones who receive funding to keep thinks running ….
Check wallet on @socialgraph