Welcome to the RD thread!

This is a place for casual random chat and discussion.

A reminder for everyone to always follow the community rules and observe the Code of Conduct.

Image

Mobile apps:

Quick tips:

Footnotes:

  • Daily pixel art courtesy of adroitcell
  • Report inappropriate comments and violators
  • Message the moderation team for any issues
  • @[email protected]
    link
    fedilink
    English
    51 year ago

    Parang naging default instance kasi ng most of those who join Lemmy ang .world, which dapat mag spread out between instances para hindi ma-strain yung capacity ng mga bigger instances. Kaya nga may federation. It’s not that hard to subscribe to a community from another instance naman. Most of the communities I’m subscribed to are not in lemm.ee but that’s the beauty of federation, I can still interact with the other instances while never actually leaving my instance. Siguro kailangan din natin i-direct and mga incoming users to other instances para ma share ang load between multiple instances. Just my 2 cents.

    • megane-kun
      link
      fedilink
      English
      51 year ago

      I’m of the opinion that ideally, Lemmy.world can act as the assembly area for the new migrants. It gives them time to get a feel of the Threadiverse as a whole, without having to think about instances and federation and all that shit. Once they’ve gained more experience, or found an instance that better fits their needs, then they can go.

      However, given the amount of people pouring into Lemmy.world, I think that it might be a good idea to “randomly assign” an instance to them. That is, a number of small instances that are willing to take the load off Lemmy.world can group together to form a pool of instances that are then randomly assigned to those coming over from Reddit through a portal like a more newb-friendly version of https://join-lemmy.org/.

      • Dear FayeA
        link
        English
        41 year ago

        deleted by creator

        • megane-kun
          link
          fedilink
          English
          31 year ago

          in a span of 4 weeks, the database got up to 6 gigs already

          Exponential growth is scary! I sure hope instance admins, as well as Lemmy devs (and contributors, and others such as those who actively look for problems in the code), are already working on such problems. In the meanwhile, yeah, the amount of goodwill is just overwhelming as well, which I hope translates to more donations instance admins and Lemmy devs (and contributors).

          • Dear FayeA
            link
            English
            11 year ago

            Yes, there are actually a lot of developers helping with Lemmy! We have a Philippine admin from here who is helping out with Lemmy as well and conversing with the other helpers (hello, you know who you are!). It’s actually kind of exciting because there are so many people wanting to help out and make this a better place, and all the code is out there for people to see, understand, and improve on.

    • Dear FayeA
      link
      English
      51 year ago

      I definitely agree with this, but damn, the upkeep for having an instance of your own can be a strain on your server, though. We have a small instance of ours in order to subscribe to other instances (not just lemmy.world) and in a span of 4 weeks, the database got up to 6 gigs already… can’t imagine how much it would cost to have more than 15 users. Donations would have to be a default setup if people want a particular instance to keep running and not have it become like Reddit, and I understand better now why some have to pass a particular screening first.

      • theyawner
        link
        fedilink
        English
        31 year ago

        Huh. I just realized how ActivityPub could be a double edged sword if I’m understanding it right. If you have 5 users in your instance who are all subscribed to the same community on another instance, then you’ll only need to store a single copy of that community in your instance. But if all 5 each have a different subscription, then you’ll be storing a copy of each community for all 5 users. The first scenario would be more efficient in terms of storage.