John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed
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The Internet was never supposed to have a central authority beyond the DNS tables.
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We need to get more people in here if we want it to actually be a Reddit competitor. Right now it’s good for some communities, but smaller ones are still extremely underpopulated.
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The way lemmy (and federation) works, it needs to do a bunch of operations that can't happen simultaneously, so there's a job queue. The queue needs to do some database operations and a bunch of communication operations and each of the jobs needs to reach out to distant servers that may or may not be overwhelmed themselves.
You start with one server it costs almost nothing to host. Sooner or later you want to split out the job servers, then you end up needing to split out the database, when you start getting that many people on your server now you want to consider fault tolerance, Even after tuning you can only fit so many simultaneous users on a web server, you end up needing to do some load balancing. The next step would be trying to split it up geography-wise.
That's scaling up and it's what big companies do and it's very expensive but easy for a small team to manage.
Lemmy on the other hand is designed to be scaled out, running smaller individual user bases on lighter hardware with a bunch of individual administrators instead of a organized team.
If people want to be on a large single cluster application Reddit is still there.
I like what we have a lot better.
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Yeah, you can get away with really cheap operations up until you start blowing through your cdn and communication budget
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I don't get it
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*porn involving some or all of the above
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Be the change you want to see
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Dipshit in chief and his butthurt-prone sidekick will probably sue.
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That's what I was wondering. For a while I swear naked images of Rinkunn were more prevalent than The Picard Maneuver. I'm an All user mostly out of curiosity but disappointed that I think world defederated from one of the major furry ones cause that dropped considerably.
Wait, is disappointed the right word? I guess it is, although maybe i just miss their positivity. I'm still cool with hexbear being defederated, after all. Lol
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Oh in practice it works quite well for me, basically all my friends and family use Signal now. You can slightly push them towards that, explain the obvious pros, it's simple to install, so it's just a small matter of convincing. I only rarely use WhatsApp for some external groups.
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I think the uphill battle here is that a good amount of the active users on lemmy are probably very tech savvy. The percentage of us who aren’t, are doing it wrong in their eyes.
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Using it myself, this is technically true but also it's literally Twitter pre-takeover-- like a fork all the tolerable people started using. You've got your George Takei and your Stephen King, etc, so it's what left of center normies can enjoy without being a little too far (like us, here).
If I'm being honest, I prefer to mix the two communities because a little too much Fediverse can make you go crazy, plus I spread Lemmy ideology there cause someone's gotta bring up class warfare and Linux, right?
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Oh I agree. I'm just not there because twitter was never my thing. Keep up the fediverse propaganda, comrade.
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I'd say it is more notoriety than popularity.
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And knives.
And beans.
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What exactly does a DragonTypeWyvern tail look like?
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I'm not too worried about it.
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I say give it three years and blue sky will just be a neolib twitter
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Imagine traveling down a liminal space of tubes and the only signs are nondescript TLDs.
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Ain't nobody wanna see that.
