As someone who has been here for quite some time before the reddit exodus, it is crazy how much this place has improved in such a short time. I used to check lemmy once or maybe twice a day and then I'd go back to reddit. Now with all the new people posting here, lemmy has replaced reddit for me
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I joined too early and stopped looking as there was so little content. In fact, when Lemmy started becoming well-known, I forgot I even had an account and made a new one elsewhere. Luckily, my password manager has a better memory!
Now if only my upvotes would go through. Hopefully the patch that was applied to lemmy.world yesterday addresses that. Their instance seems much more stable and responsive now.
I think the whole Fediverse is struggling with Reddit and Twitter sending a lot of new users their way.
Yeah, it's amazing how quickly things have improved amid a massive influx of new users! Truly impressive!
I'm really enjoying Jerboa. It stays lightweight and fast!
Same, I just wish for mod tools.
What mod tools do you want to see?
Use Wefwef for mobile.
Use it for PC too 😉 Since it's a PWA (Progressive web application) it can be installed (as its own program) on any os with a compatible browser, including Windows, Linux and Mac.
Just not using Firefox...
I installed it via firefox mobile as a PWA and have no issues.
Literally does nothing for me... Any site with an official pwa doesn't install for me with FF on android.
Weird. Maybe you have removed some permissions or dosabled installing apps from unkown sources?
Nope just YT is so baked it it keeps taking over.
Edit: Wrong reply... Firefox has permissions, no idea. It works for non-pwa sites.
I still get multiple JSON errors on every page I visit.
Try on another browser just to see
No thanks. Blink browsers aren't allowed on my networks. If it doesn't work on Firefox, it doesn't work.
I'm on Firefox, too. Can you try on a fresh profile?
That I can do. I’ll report back tomorrow.
It just needs horizontal so that you could throw more servers at an instance and improve performance.
At some point a single community will be so active that one server won't be enough , it's better not to split it just so that it will be easier for the software.
I'd argue the exact opposite. We should strive for more instances and for Lemmy's userbase to be spread around. The fact that is scaling out (more instances) is easier than scaling up (beefier servers) is a feature, not a bug.
It's not exactly something that you can force. If X amount of users want to join an instance Y, the instance should be able to provide capabilities to host those users. Besides, horizontal scaling provides other benefits, stability is the main one - if one server instance goes down, others can immediately pick up the slack.
the instance should be able to provide capabilities to host those users.
Why? And who pays for that?
Why not? I don't see the drawback to develop ability to do horizontal scaling. If the instance owner doesn't want to add additional servers, it's up to them. Obviously they paid for it if they decide to add.
Just to be clear, horizontal scaling means multiple servers handling same instance, it can be the backend service to allow handling more traffics, or multiple db to reduce database loads.
Additionally it allows high availabilities, so if one of the backend service is down (either unexpectedly or do rolling update) the other service can still active so the instance can still be accessed by users
Lemmy.ml did exactly that and is one reason why lemmy.world got to be that big.
Once the server capacity is reached the instance should be closed and people will just go to another one.
I don't understand why people feel so happy about lemmy.world being ahead of the rest. It's against the point of the fediverse and has risks: the instance can be sold, can make decisions to put advertisement etc. It's like people didn't really understand what was wrong with reddit to begin with and how the fediverse tries to be different.
I hope at some point you can join a community on another server and see all posts, not be restricted to what gets posted from now on. Federated is great, but some way to make it transparent would be cool.
I think you might have a setting wrong. When I join a community on another server I see all of the posts including past ones.
Well, I have joined communities on other servers where I am the first to join. At that point, it shows up on my server and others on my server can also see it listed, but posts on my server to that group only get updated from the day I joined forward. That's what I meant.