> We're over 33k users now, having the second largest Lemmy server there is.
It became the largest a few hours ago!
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#72So, single server scaled vertically? Gross.
HN runs on a single core. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29927630
HN has a lot of optimizations and limitations on the user experience.
For example, I don't see the scores of every other post on HN - and certainly don't see them updated in realtime. New comments and posts show up when I reload the page - not as I scroll. There's only one HN instance - without having 100 more instances trying to mirror the content (just one - firebase).
... and HN is an example of a single, centralized, unfederated server.
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#73I want lemmy to succeed, but if it doesnt change, it never will. 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…
It's open source and user growth has recently exploded. It's going to be changing rapidly in the coming months.
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#74Having worked in the tech legal and compliance, privacy, and security spaces for a very long time the idea of letting thousands of strangers upload binary files to a server I’m legally liable for is terrifying.
Even "text" files can be encoded binary files -- it was a big shift in USENET. I had a heated discussion with some Nostr advocates who thought that by calling servers "avocados" or something, then they wouldn't be responsible for what users posted on the "avocados". I've not looked into ActivityPub or the Fediverse enough to know what is hosted locally and would (not) be protected by Sec 230, but it might drive some…
base64 is a helluva drug.
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#75I 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.
Lemmy supports alternate frontends. I'm kinda intrigued by https://fedibb.ml/ , which replicates the default phpBB theme.
Its dead, Jim.
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#76There 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?
Keep in mind a lot of instances are preparing for what they anticipate to be the largest migratory wave yet when third party apps shut down at the end of the month.
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#77I want lemmy to succeed, but if it doesnt change, it never will. 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…
It feels like there's an easy fix for this too. Instances already have an about section. Simply add a short form version that can be used in circumstances like this.
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
A browser extension? While I agree, the client (browser) probably has to know about ActivityPub, or store some state that sites can read (without third party cookies), it's not fair to expect users install a browser extension for what would be basic functionality in their eyes.
Thankfully, there are proposals to add ActivityPub as a web API: https://github.com/webap-api/webap-browser-extension