A few weeks ago Lemmy was buggy on computers and there were no good mobile clients out there, now on PC the site is pretty stable and fast, and there are now some pretty good iOS/Android clients too. Thanks to all the people who made this possible!

  • Mishmash2000@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Yeah, it’s amazing how quickly things have improved amid a massive influx of new users! Truly impressive!

  • blueberry@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    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

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.

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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

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          1 year ago

          the instance should be able to provide capabilities to host those users.

          Why? And who pays for that?

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            1 year ago

            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