I admit the “essentially” qualifier is doing some heavy lifting.
But you’re ultimately expending some miniscule amount of someone else’s resources in a way that they received no benefit, especially where the expected path to those resources (which you’re avoiding) do provide benefit.
It’s a razor edge either way. If you’re on principal avoiding using the resource out of fear of “supporting” because you could accidentally generate a fraction of a penny on advertising impressions or bump the stock price a trillionth of a penny due to contributing to a reported active user count, it should be clarified that in this way, neither of those things will happen. The opposite will. You’ll burn a fraction of a penny of AWS time.
And yah, there is a risk of content switcharooing. I think in the context of a content aggregator that is heavily engaged by recency, it’s not something I PERSONALLY would stress about. If it stays stable for another 48 hours, it’ll almost certainly never be accessed again via Lemmy.
I admit the “essentially” qualifier is doing some heavy lifting.
But you’re ultimately expending some miniscule amount of someone else’s resources in a way that they received no benefit, especially where the expected path to those resources (which you’re avoiding) do provide benefit.
It’s a razor edge either way. If you’re on principal avoiding using the resource out of fear of “supporting” because you could accidentally generate a fraction of a penny on advertising impressions or bump the stock price a trillionth of a penny due to contributing to a reported active user count, it should be clarified that in this way, neither of those things will happen. The opposite will. You’ll burn a fraction of a penny of AWS time.
And yah, there is a risk of content switcharooing. I think in the context of a content aggregator that is heavily engaged by recency, it’s not something I PERSONALLY would stress about. If it stays stable for another 48 hours, it’ll almost certainly never be accessed again via Lemmy.
At least that concern is valid.