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Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

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Post by accrual »

Paul-Craft wrote: post #4
ActionHank wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been planning a jump across, but have been waiting it out to see if they see the error of their ways. Thus far they just keep jumping from one awful talking point to the next like a toddler trying to rationalize bad behaviour.

I'm blanking out my 10 year old account (after requesting my data dump) sometime around the first if they don't do something to reverse course.

I was curious to see HN's view on removing Reddit account data. I have a couple old accounts (>12 years) with many thousands of comments. My personal perspective is that deleting all these comments, some of which contain technical help, advice, solutions, etc., would really be a net-negative for everyone.

I understand wanting to send a message to Reddit leadership, but in reality the blip is so small as to probably not even register.

On the other hand, those comments will probably be valuable to someone, somewhere, sometime and all I'd be doing is harming those future readers and salting the metaphorical earth.

Looking further into the future, let's assume Reddit collapses in 5 years in 2027. The money is dried up, management is gone, and all that's left are decades of data hopefully archived. Are people 5, 10, 20 years from now going to appreciate that a subset of data was purged in protest? Or are they going to appreciate that they found some useful data still in the archive that might actually help something?

I'd rather be in the latter camp. And maybe one day someone will ask their at-home AI bot a question about , and a small part of me will be emitted in the output.

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

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Post by dota_fanatic »

nomilk wrote: post #30
Aachen wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is also one of the main reasons I hate using Signal. It's a tiny css change, but seeing only 4 chats and 6 messages per screen is just way less usable than double the amount on Telegram or Wire. For websites, though, it's a lot easier to add custom css. If that's your main gripe, you're one browser extension away from a fix

> For websites, it's a lot easier to add custom css ... you're one browser extension away from a fix Any recommendations for chrome/safari extensions? Never done it before but keen to try.

Not sure about Safari, but Stylus works very well for Chrome/FF.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpe...

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

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Post by markstos »

speg wrote: post #21

I’m getting frustrated with Lemmy. I’ve tried to reply to a post this morning and the submit button just spins. No error, nothing. This is a bad bug, but there are plenty other small things. Like why is “Join Lemmy” link still displayed when I’m logged in? Feels like unbaked software to me. That’s on top of all the multiple federated instances you need to wrap your head around. I’m not sure this can compete :(

I read that bug was fixed recently, at least on lemmy.world. They accidentally left federation debugging on, so federating the post was happening in the foreground instead of the background, so your post probably succeeded and you were waiting for federation of the message to complete.

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

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Post by juujian »

rdschouw wrote: post #19
juujian wrote: post #11

Could Lemmy have something akin to r/all? I have always used Reddit more to discover new contents, trends, and communities then to check up on communities i already know (with a few exceptions).

You mean this? https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sor...

Yeah, though this is even better: https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sor...

Kind of broken though, it keeps showing new posts at the top when they are posted, which should not happen when you sort for Top Posts of the Day. Any place to report bugs?

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

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Post by stev-0 »

taywrobel wrote: post #32
garrettjoecox wrote: post #15

A bit off topic, but why does it seem like not a single page on this site uses caching of any sort? Every time it’s brought up and I click into it I’m met with minute(s) long loading screens. Surely they aren’t pulling all of these stats from every node every single page load right?

I don’t think this is off topic, because this is a common theme across all of Lemmy. Not necessarily no caching, but abysmal performance across the board. As much as I want the project to succeed it’s unusable currently, and with more Reddit communities coming back from the blackout, their opportunity to claim the user base in the long run is already passed. The stats over the last month are impressive (if you can ge…

Honestly, performance isn’t all that bad for me. Not much worse than Reddit anyways.

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

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Post by sputter_token »

juujian wrote: post #44
rdschouw wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean this? https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sor...

Yeah, though this is even better: https://lemmy.world/home/data_type/Post/listing_type/All/sor... Kind of broken though, it keeps showing new posts at the top when they are posted, which should not happen when you sort for Top Posts of the Day. Any place to report bugs?

https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

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Post by nologic01 »

Paul-Craft wrote: post #2

~277k users, up from ~51k on June 1 319 nodes, up from 84 on June 1 Sure, this is nothing compared to Reddit's userbase, but we'll see in a couple weeks how big this will get.

This is quite remarkable.

It not just the numbers. Those are likely opinionated reddit users that will help the platform go faster through its baby steps.

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

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Post by ehutch79 »

raybb wrote: post #36
taywrobel wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t think this is off topic, because this is a common theme across all of Lemmy. Not necessarily no caching, but abysmal performance across the board. As much as I want the project to succeed it’s unusable currently, and with more Reddit communities coming back from the blackout, their opportunity to claim the user base in the long run is already passed. The stats over the last month are impressive (if you can ge…

Don't have a link now but as I understand it the main problem is they were using websockets and it didn't scale to so many users. So they're switching to rest api calls and that should fix a lot of the issues. But it's a pretty big switch they've been working hard on.

Shouldn't rest (or graphql) be the default? with realtime updates being a progressive enhancement?

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

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Post by skyfaller »

Yet another stats page, this one includes kbin too:

https://fedidb.org/current-events/threadiverse

Lemmy and kbin are theoretically both compatible with each other, as well as with less-closely related projects like Mastodon, because they are all part of the Fediverse using the same ActivityPub standard protocol. (In practice, there are bugs because this is alpha software, and some aspects of running a link aggregator aren't in the ActivityPub standard and thus implementations differ, but it's really cool when federation works between different codebases.)

Re: Lemmy stats (users, posts, nodes, comments)

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Post by bee_rider »

afavour wrote: post #40
distcs wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly! And also keep in mind that all of this is open source created by volunteers like you and me in their free time. Imagine you and me working on a side project like this during weekends. We will probably be focusing on implementing the protocol right, fixing all those rendering and mundane CSS issues, making sure the login and session management does not have security holes. Essentially get all the functional s…

All of what you’re saying is correct but so is what the OP said. It’s very difficult for a volunteer run operation to scale up at short notice. The same time Lemmy has to if it wants to capture disaffected Reddit users.

Reddit is still in the process of making bad moves I think; unless I missed something and they announced a reversal of the API pricing changes?

Lemmy should grow at a sustainable pace. The population boom from the blackouts is transient. As the moderators on Reddit get less enthusiastic about doing free work for a company that clearly doesn’t like them and will happily take away their tools, some will give up. The communities there will get less well taken care of, eventually users will notice, and there should be a slow trickle out. That’s the sustainable stream Lemmy should try to capture.

Or none of this will happen and Reddit will go back to normal, in which case fine, who cares, right?

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