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Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by jochem9 »

creamyhorror wrote: post #50
dragontamer wrote: post #2

There were some Lemmy-related discussions going on this past weekend. I think this is the one tidbit everyone around Hacker News wants to know: > The current VPS couldn't be resized that much anymore, and load was going up with all the new users. So I bought the same server at Hetzner: a 32-core/64 thread 128GB RAM dedicated server. (For Mastodon, I doubled the RAM. For Lemmy I don't think it's needed yet.) I migrate…

32 cores and/or 128GB RAM - for how many concurrent users, 36.7k? It seems like Lemmy requires a fair bit of resources per user for a primarily text-based API, more than I'd expected. Wonder where the majority of the resource burden lies - uncached local database queries? Too many simultaneous database connections?

Federation takes quite a toll.

The way I read the article is that they didn't upgrade every time the load was (almost) too high, but instead opted immediately for the beefy dedicated server (considering the price it makes sense – it's on par with beefy VMs that have less power). They probably have resources to spare right now, but no need to go through the hassle of an upgrade soon (although 4 mins downtime sounds like they have things under control).

Having said that, I'm sure there's plenty to improve in Lemmy, given it's used at a bigger scale now.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by jochem9 »

camdenlock wrote: post #18

Took a look at mastodon.world out of curiosity. Total conformity of belief on the entire front page timeline. Maybe it’s another one of those Mastodon instances where anti-capitalist social justice is the approved dogma, and dissenters are banned? Seems to be a lot of those…

Federated social media is currently predominantly housing innovators (maybe already some early adopters? One can hope). Innovators tend to look forward and are very open to change. With that mindset it's not hard to see how painfully obvious it is that capitalism isn't sustainable, while we absolutely need to move to a sustainable future. What that sustainable economic system looks like is obviously still unknown, hence lots of discussion.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by xigoi »

eigenspace wrote: post #3

I wish Lemmy's default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews' design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.

Old Reddit is not responsive.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by xigoi »

yosito wrote: post #19
camdenlock wrote: post #18

Took a look at mastodon.world out of curiosity. Total conformity of belief on the entire front page timeline. Maybe it’s another one of those Mastodon instances where anti-capitalist social justice is the approved dogma, and dissenters are banned? Seems to be a lot of those…

The beauty of Mastodon is that you can set up your own server if you don't like how someone else runs theirs!

And then you lose the benefits of federation.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by TheFragenTaken »

Stephen304 wrote: post #23
ajsnigrutin wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, until you google some error, or some other random thing, find some thread somewhere, want to comment/ask/contribute, and you can't, since the registrations are locked.

I'm on kbin.social and participate in communities across ~20ish other instances regardless of whether they've turned off registrations temporarily or permanently. Disabling registrations only prevents new accounts on that instance, it doesn't stop people from posting and commenting from other instances.

I think what the parent is alluding to, is the fact that, Googling something and ending up on a Lemmy instance that is not your local one. You can, in fact, not comment on these instances. You must access it through your local instance (e.g. lemmy.world/c/community@remote.com).

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by mariusor »

eigenspace wrote: post #3

I wish Lemmy's default design was more of a copy of old.reddit.com. For me, that design was better than both HackerNews' design and way better than the current default look of Lemmy instances.

I work on a link aggregator that uses a more minimalist design. An example instance is at https://brutalinks.tech

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by rglullis »

TheFragenTaken wrote: post #55
Stephen304 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm on kbin.social and participate in communities across ~20ish other instances regardless of whether they've turned off registrations temporarily or permanently. Disabling registrations only prevents new accounts on that instance, it doesn't stop people from posting and commenting from other instances.

I think what the parent is alluding to, is the fact that, Googling something and ending up on a Lemmy instance that is not your local one. You can, in fact, not comment on these instances. You must access it through your local instance (e.g. lemmy.world/c/community@remote.com).

It won't be long until someone makes an extension that can detect AP servers and lets you interact with remote instances using your own.

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

#58

Post by spiralx »

lmm wrote: post #13
gerdesj wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

old.reddit.com looks rather dated to this 53 y/o bloke. Very busy too. I don't actually care because content is king and presentation is not but it would be nice if it looks good. Modern Reddit looks OK to me but I have recently deleted all comments I've ever made on Reddit and also my account. I will keep the mail alias alive for a while to see what shite turns up. For me Reddit was a new and vaguely exciting thing…

> old.reddit.com looks rather dated to this 53 y/o bloke. Very busy too. I don't actually care because content is king and presentation is not but it would be nice if it looks good. Displaying actual content seems to look "dated" and "busy" by today's aesthetic standard. Do you have any example of a UI that has the information density of old.reddit.com but "looks good" by your standards?

My personal user style for old.reddit.com extends the comment width to the whole screen and moves the horizontal action list for each comment to align with the username and the right side of the screen, while changing the font to one I find easier to read as well as bumping the font size and line-spacing, as well as generally adding some small amounts of space and colour here and there to help separate elements.

It's evolved over a few years now and the combination of changes means that I don't generally lose much in the way of content density in the general case of a post with mostly small to medium comments where the increased body text size is balanced with the removal of the space for the action bar. And it was even better before I got a bit older and decided that I should bump the font size up another pixel to make things easier on my eyes :)

Re: Welcome Lemmy.world

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Post by raincole »

lmm wrote: post #13
gerdesj wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

old.reddit.com looks rather dated to this 53 y/o bloke. Very busy too. I don't actually care because content is king and presentation is not but it would be nice if it looks good. Modern Reddit looks OK to me but I have recently deleted all comments I've ever made on Reddit and also my account. I will keep the mail alias alive for a while to see what shite turns up. For me Reddit was a new and vaguely exciting thing…

> old.reddit.com looks rather dated to this 53 y/o bloke. Very busy too. I don't actually care because content is king and presentation is not but it would be nice if it looks good. Displaying actual content seems to look "dated" and "busy" by today's aesthetic standard. Do you have any example of a UI that has the information density of old.reddit.com but "looks good" by your standards?

I don't want that much information density. That's the whole point. Information density is not net positive.
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