Combine that with the fact that most experienced admins can work a lot faster in a CLI compared to GUI, and the fact that a CLI allows you to replicate previous actions with no effort.
Not only do we not need to attract everyone, we cannot attract everyone. At least not short to mid term. If everybody on reddit suddenly jumped on the lemmy bandwagon, the whole network would go down faster than you could blink.
From my understanding you are correct. Each instance is responsible for serving all of the content of the communities created on it. So many small instances with a smaller amount of communities = good, a few huge instances with lots of communities = bad.
I’m not sure your second paragraph is correct. First of all, it’s “just in time” so will only be replicated if somebody on that instance is following it. But more importantly, I read a statement from a server owner somewhere that the software purges older content regularly (and refetches is “just in time” when somebody tries to view the old content) to keep storage size down.
There is an open ticket or multigroups: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818, so you might want to give that a thumbs up to show interest.
There is an open ticket or multigroups: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/818
Had almost the same journey, except I’ve never heard of fark before.
I agree. I too prefer the website as a progressive web app. Though I’m playing with the idea of making a cross platform app highly inspired by relay for reddit. But with my history of procrastination that probably never will get finished.
Got my first phone in 1997, and I have yet to experience a charger needing to be replaced.