Honestly this community seems to generate even more useful content than r/piracy did for me. Already I’ve learned about 5 great replacements for rargbto, the beauties of torrent aggregator desktop clients, and awesome debrid streaming for iOS via WebDAV. Great stuff
Rust itself or the way the Rust logic is implemented is not the bottleneck. Like most decent web applications the bottleneck is the database and how the decentralized protocols themselves are reconciled there.
Scaling massive amounts of records like Lemmy has been forced to is almost always IO bound at the database level even when a web service is centralized; this is much more difficult in federated architectures. This is why “NoSQL” databases have increased in popularity, but they are also not a magic bullet as there are major ACID trade offs one needs to consider.
This isn’t “one or the other” IMO. There’s room for niche instances hyper-focused on a generalized topic like “math,” “comp sci,” “sports,” etc.
But then there should also be a massive generalized instance (hopefully 2 at least so the competition keeps admins in check) that has a little bit of everything and acts as a Reddit replacement. We can have our cake and eat it too.
I’ve seen other posts say this is a bug introduced in the version of Lemmy deployed yesterday.
It definitely should be a top priority for the team to fix though — it seems to have really exacerbated the problem.
No one has solved a way to make hosting massive amounts of videos cheap, and this is unlikely to happen anytime soon due to the large amount of data storage and bandwidth required.
So no, even if YouTube somehow becomes even more tyrannical than it is it’s unlikely we’ll ever see it decentralized and federated the way Lemmy is in a usable way anytime soon.
Would love to checkout the code for this thanks for the suggestion
Hey not everything needs to be federated! I’m a huge decentralization advocate for large scale community resources but for most commercial settings a centralized service like Slack will do the trick!
I’ve been wondering the same!
Does anyone know of any Lemmy dev communities (preferably a Lemmy community but I’d settle for a Discord) dedicated to resource for software devs to learn the protocol? I’m interested in creating bots to help Reddit users and subreddits migrate here.
Oh shit it actually worked, upvotes for all. Sorry for shitting on you mLem!
I still can’t get my iOS app to let me comment
Stealing isn’t OK, but I always found it a bit disjointed how making “mistakes” (minor or large) at self-checkouts basically has zero recourse. They really do need to be reworked