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Caching is not easy for something like Reddit, where everyone has a personalized feed.
Couldn't you say the same of Mastodon?
Mastodon is not P2P
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> The loading times of this are dreadful and I don't see how you'll be able to solve that problem when you're relying on P2P. It's easy enough to centralize a caching layer, perhaps through a popular CDN.
Caching is not easy for something like Reddit, where everyone has a personalized feed.
Why not just cache sub feeds?
Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
#153Every time I see social media recreated in a decentralised fashion I realise why the successful ones are centralised. The loading times of this are dreadful and I don't see how you'll be able to solve that problem when you're relying on P2P. In any case, it sounds like we'll be getting many new Reddit clones so I may as well plug what I've built recently: a Reddit alternative API that is free. Check it out if you're…
For the GET /r/:subreddit/comments/:article endpoint, is there a limit to the amount of comments returned? If yes, how is it determined which get returned? Sorted by top? Best?
Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
#154Every time I see social media recreated in a decentralised fashion I realise why the successful ones are centralised. The loading times of this are dreadful and I don't see how you'll be able to solve that problem when you're relying on P2P. In any case, it sounds like we'll be getting many new Reddit clones so I may as well plug what I've built recently: a Reddit alternative API that is free. Check it out if you're…
When visiting the link, chrome just suggested I may mean to visit "reddit", never seen that before. I have safe browsing disabled, so I'm at a lost from where this comes from.
https://i.imgur.com/l57osTi.png
Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
#155Every time I see social media recreated in a decentralised fashion I realise why the successful ones are centralised. The loading times of this are dreadful and I don't see how you'll be able to solve that problem when you're relying on P2P. In any case, it sounds like we'll be getting many new Reddit clones so I may as well plug what I've built recently: a Reddit alternative API that is free. Check it out if you're…
I don't really find Mastodon that slow. I do think it's got a lot, lot of sharp edges that need smoothing out before it's really viable. But speed isn't a problem, and it's decentralised.
Nitter page: full page layout with all text loads in about half a second, images load in the next three
Mastodon page: requires unblocking JavaScript, takes one second just to load the basic layout (without post contents), then takes four to ELEVEN seconds to fully load
https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma
I expected better.
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What's stopping a determined spammer paying for accounts? Paid accounts adds a significant overhead to the spamming. Spammers just don't spam for the sake of it, they want to sell people something, legal or not. It's one thing to buy millions of spam accounts for $100 on the dark web. It's another to have to spend $5 bucks a month per account on millions of accounts...
A determined spammer wouldn't be above buying stolen cc numbers off the dark Web.
> A determined spammer wouldn't be above buying stolen cc numbers off the dark Web.
Good, that would eliminate 99.99% of the spammers.
Good enough for any social media.
The potential bank fraud and wire fraud federal charges are just the cherry on top of the ridiculous overhead of your imaginary spam operation.
Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
#157I am not sure why you went for the new Reddit UX which is both horrible and hated instead of the more "simple" text only UI. This had also the side effect that you managed to do it worse (probably by combining a bunch of React components) and the whole thing is slow and non-responsive.
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I don't really find Mastodon that slow. I do think it's got a lot, lot of sharp edges that need smoothing out before it's really viable. But speed isn't a problem, and it's decentralised.
Nitter page: full page layout with all text loads in about half a second, images load in the next three https://nitter.it/rauschma Mastodon page: requires unblocking JavaScript, takes one second just to load the basic layout (without post contents), then takes four to ELEVEN seconds to fully load https://fosstodon.org/@rauschma I expected better.
Hmm, compare for https://elk.zone , is it still slow? For me it is almost instant.
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Which I find frankly ironic because I dread clicking on Twitter links for that same reason. It takes 10 seconds to load a tweet, and I have to click through the "view in app" nag, to boot. Using Mastodon servers have been a breath of fresh air in comparison.
I use nitter, the right servers are fast ;)
Too much content is blocked for nitter this days. At least on my experience.
Re: Demo: Fully P2P and open source Reddit alternative
#160I think decentralizing and p2p is the wrong approach to solving the issue with commercialized social networks. What we really need is a non-profit & transparent & independent governance setup. Financing should happen through donations, maybe grants but certainly not ads. A bit like Wikipedia mixed with Mozilla, but even more transparent.