@cwebber That's rather bad. Ideally a social media node would have a constant storage need, not one which needs to scale with the amount of users, the media, etc.
Maybe ephemeral services like IRC were not such a bad idea to begin with. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The conclusion that we need big billionaire companies, just to fill our "need" to post cat videos, is a little bit silly. BUT when considering climate change, that fits the picture.
We live in absurd times.