Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
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Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#22not surprising. centralized communication platforms suffer from the hug of death naturally occurring when people want to read information all at once.
Isn't this exactly what caching is for? If it's read-only data, I feel like hug-of-death should not be the norm.
Maybe it's bad when lots of people want to interact with information all at once.
Or maybe when access to information is gated behind a bunch of javascript client/server interactions.
On the other hand, I'm out of touch and still just write static HTML pages when I can get away with it :þ
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#23But it’s owned by Jack, right? Who’s posting increasingly Musk-level takes on Twitter
No. I believe he is just on the board.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, what I need is a Reddit replacement
They're getting slammed hard, but I recommend creating an account on either http://lemmy.world or http://kbin.social . (Personally I prefer Lemmy due to it being closer to Reddit in design.) They both run OSS Reddit clones and appear to be gaining the most traction. As a bonus, they're also interoperable with each other, and any other server that installs the software.
they also federate with mastodon
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#25What's funny is that while Twitter wants you to log in and goes at great length to prevent you from reading anything when not logged in, the situation is exactly the other way round with Bluesky. They limit who can sign in, but openly publish all data via their API. So one could use an AT protocol client to read, or a web based client like this one: https://firesky.tv/ I just made an account, let's see how this thing…
I’m there too:
@donohoe.dev
Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#26My invite codes are piling up, so here are a few:
(Removed, all used)
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#27But it’s owned by Jack, right? Who’s posting increasingly Musk-level takes on Twitter
The “At” protocol is supposed to allow you to take your account elsewhere. Since you own the domain, nobody else can use it and thus you may migrate to instances owned by other corporations or by you even.
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#28Anyone handing out Bluesky invite codes?
bsky-social-e5qhz-qqdtr (edit: someone used it)
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#29Re: Bluesky facing degraded performance due to record high traffic
#30not surprising. centralized communication platforms suffer from the hug of death naturally occurring when people want to read information all at once.
Not if they’re well-designed and adequately provisioned, which is just as true for federated platforms.
It sounds like you're arguing from a hypothetically perfect view with 20/20 hindsight. Scaling problems are good problems, solvable at the right time without the evils of premature optimization. Doing work without a need is wasted effort.