My non-tech wife tried to tell me “obviously that’s why it’s called that” when I’ve been writing software (and even some minor firmware hacking) for 30 years.

Is this the real life?

Hits a 404 now on the link (sh.itjust.works link above), does anyone have a TLDR?

Yes. God tier meme. I have never been a part of the Reddit lotr memes community, but now you have my sword!

Amazing work mlem team! Using it right now and the profile page is indeed gorgeous!

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.

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.

Wow such a nice quality of life change!

I been hitting new more lately — honestly such solid content showing up on “new” on Lemmy compared to the trash on Reddit

Would love to checkout the code for this thanks for the suggestion

Also https://lemmyfly.com/c/flightsim https://lemmyfly.com/c/aviation https://lemmyfly.com/c/CockpitVids

Seems to be working, within 24 hours that community becomes available. Can I do the same for https://lemmy.ml/c/aviation

Yeah I definitely agree -- you summarized my feelings nicely.

I would also add that as exciting concepts/technologies grow and commercialize they tend to become more subject to noise and self-interest interfering with some of their higher order "platonic" (ideal) forms. I fundamentally think that the more federated/decentralized a service can be, the better its original purpose and perfect form can be maintained. Practically I do think it's challenging for both currency and link aggregation to be properly decentralized, but I think both Bitcoin and Lemmy are inherently beautiful implementations if you strip them down to their core.

I mean I definitely agree that this feels great, but decentralization and federation is what pure Bitcoin and crypto are all about. In many ways this community reminds me of the good vibes and great minds the early days of cryptocurrency discovery encouraged. This predated some of the corruption, VCs, and crypto bros that came around in 2013 during the first boom.

I still think that early soul of empowerment and community is there in Bitcoin itself but you gotta dig a little deeper to find it. I expect Lemmy will also “commercialize” to some extent in coming years, but it’ll always be better than Reddit and other centralized platforms that want to feature gate and censor unfairly.

I think the syncing/federation is just slow and/or degraded temporarily -- especially on popular instances since they're a bit overwhelmed with the user count coming from the Reddit exodus.

now it worked! Yay, now can I get access to https://lemmy.ml/c/marvelsnap ? [email protected]

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!

!usa

I’ve heard you need to link to it from a post with an exclamation mark for it to work sometimes if it’s obscure… I also cannot find https://lemmy.ml/c/usa