Big spike in comments/posts this AM :/

https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/

Thanks for the in depth write up! I haven't looked too far into the docs or the subscription model, but is this a fault on Lemmy's end, or is this a function of how activity pub handles federated communication? (I'm very new to activity pub/federation, just now reading through the activity pub docs)

I do like your idea of distributed replication via keys,much better than what I had brainstormed

Edit: yeah it does look like it's a function of activity pub, wonder if theres a more scalable federation protocol out there

it could have been done much better.

Care to expand on this point?

Lol, because I'll be spinning up an instance this coming weekend with some QoL changes that I'd like to see, but don't think would be merged in (route schema for posts as i dont like {url/post/{post_id}

I'm presently working on changing the url schema to more match reddit's,

Eg:

/post/{title}-{title_id}

/post/{title}-{title_id}/comments

Etc.

I have all the code changes locally but waiting for a new PSU fot my home server to come in tomorrow for my dev server as i dont feel like setting up postgres etc on my laptop

What are the current specs of the server y'all are using ?

Yep! Although it is too bad that when you sesrch for reddit alternstives, that lemmy doesn't come up.

Bonus points for: a way to get my playlists/liked songs off of spotify :)

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Absolutely. The value from the knowledge that I've gained from reddit is intangible. It will be next to impossible for me to not use it as reference material in the future. I mean we're talking about close to 2 decades of crowdsourced information.

Being able to filter out bad information with downvotes was also amazing, and part of the reason I will most likely be moving away from beehaw communities (no downvotes, wtf?? trying to be youtube, eh? 🤣 )

It will still be a useful repository of knowledge. It's going to be a hard transition, most of the time when I google something I need to append site:reddit.com, to get a useful answer

Note: you will most likely still be able to view from mobile browser via teddit even after the api cutoff date

Interesting write up, thanks for sharing !

Nice! Ill give this a shot, as I have something like 5 unis near me

I'm not sure if anything could at this point. The large amount of users has resulted in a lot lower quality of posts.

Where do you host ? What are the specs of the server?

like, it used to cost some serious $$$ to host your own website/community back in the day, but now you can easily get away with it for less than ~$100/yr.

Sure, at a small scale. But if you want to run a highly available, horizontally scalable platform that will cost $$$.

I agree with your other points!

The answer is just building strong communities that give a shit about building good internet spaces

Like I said in my post, interests fade. Most open source projects I've seen fail. What keeps a core team around over the years, most of the time, isn't giving a shit.

Ehm, it is hard to make social platforms work. I work in technology, as a software engineer and am paid to keep our core services running. It is a full time job with some of the best minds around me.

Luckily, I work in a sector that mainly sees traffic 9-5 m-f, but social platforms need hands on deck 24/7/365.

The one thing that I am worried about for a decentralized future is incentives.

What keeps a federalized service owner going over the years? Donations alone won't account for server costs, let alone time spent maintaining code or moderating communities.

Most successful open source projects offer enterprise packages to sustain incentivization, or are a subset of a megacorp that releases (off of the top of my head: canonical, hashicorp, apache, mongodb, k8s, chromium, android, redhat) and the list goes on.

Most, if not all, of the donations based or FOSS projects that I have seen over the years lose traction because the hobby wears off for the core maintainers.