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lemmy.world, for whatever reason, absolutely guzzles CPU cycles. I can't imagine what it could possibly need to do that requires executing that much javascript. It's all minimized, so it's hard to follow in the profiler.
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> 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.
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.
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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.
Parent comment is the perfect example of how we got so used with dealing with shitty and user-hostile systems. We've been dealing with walled gardens for almost a generation now, it's like they don't even understand that it is possible to interact with a remote system without having everything in one centralized database.
So, single server scaled vertically? Gross.
It would be reasonable to break off the postgres server Lemmy uses to a separate server, but at the moment there is only an Ansible playbook or a docker compose file, both of which assume a single server.
There's only so much time in the day and it's much easier to size up than reimplement the install process.
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Parent comment is the perfect example of how we got so used with dealing with shitty and user-hostile systems. We've been dealing with walled gardens for almost a generation now, it's like they don't even understand that it is possible to interact with a remote system without having everything in one centralized database.
Gmail isn't a walled garden but it doesn't have a 20k user limit
Besides, that's not the point. The point is that you don't need to have a Gmail account to reach and be reached by Gmail users.
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with some basic extrapolation, at how many users they'll hit the extra expensive Hertzner servers? or in other words, at which point they'll need to improve their architecture?
1TB RAM Hertzner servers are available, so at least 8x more scaling before that's a problem. 2TB RAM is common in commodity servers, albeit expensive ones ($1000ish/month). Somewhere between 4TB to 20TB RAM is the pragmatic limit (where costs for vertical scaling start to get far worse)
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'm kinda intrigued by https://fedibb.ml/, which replicates the default phpBB theme.
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.
Same. However it seems most people don't like the old.reddit look, only 4% of redditors use it. Most people are content with the slow bloated new reddit. When redditors talked about what sites to migrate to most of them preferred the modern interfaces over text based ones like tildes.net.
I got the idea of "Ill find some communities from reddit there". Typed Lemmy into google, first result was relevant - good there. Got to mainpage, decision to join or create server - well, I chose join coz that seemed more instant.
But then it made me chose between several instances with no instant info about how will my choice affect what I see, and I just gave up there. I dont want to choose instance, I dont want to learn how it works. I want content first, and if I like it, then maybe I learn the inner workings to get more of it.
But as it stands now theres just no way Lemmy will ever become mainstream.