Given the... frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and...

I mean it's getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve. Reddifugees are hugging all instances to death.

Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.

Enshittification in full force. 2023 is a fucking nightmare for online platforms. Everyone and their dog is trying to cash out before the bubble bursts.

1. Yes, that's how federation works. Your local host may be faster than the instance you are browsing content on, especially if that other instance is getting hugged to death or DDOSed. But even if that is happening, the rest of the Fediverse works just fine.

2. No, instances are not mirrored. That's probably possible in activitypub (the protocol that Lemmy and similar Fediverse platforms use), but unlikely to happen due to server resources and funding.

Think of it as a bunch of forums on the Internet, where an account made on one forum allows you to comment and see content on other forums, but you don't need a separate account for all of them. Federation somewhat simplifies things, but there are drawbacks that I won't get into here.

After today's update, Lemmy runs like a dream. Happy with my move. I only use Reddit for work and in a desktop browser now.

We will watch his career again with great interest!

South Africa has been the exception.

Well yes, it's really difficult to switch when government only just managed to migrate to Windows 10 on most machines, and still uses Microsoft's document formats for everything aside from PDF.

Up until a few years ago, UNISA was still using public-facing IIS servers and SARS was paying up the wazoo to maintain old Flash applets that people used to file their taxes.

One government department managed to waste R5 million on a WordPress website that used a $15 theme.

macOS? You gotta be kidding. Windows and Office is huge.

Just the entrenchment of Sharepoint and Outlook alone is enough to make switching to anything else a difficult prospect.

The launcher isn't really the problem, it's the fact that Overwatch 2 isn't making them any money!

This is the basis of the ASUS warranty issues recently when they had exploding AM5 motherboards and vague text about EXPO support voiding warranty, painting themselves into a corner when they only had unsupported firmware that would technically void warranty.

It doesn't matter that the company says "Oh we won't enforce that rule" but they still keep the rule in place.

They don't want users to be able to wipe their own chats manually or via GDPR requests.

If anyone asks, they will be told that the data is gone, but we all know that's not the case. They do have backups.

Meta's decision to work towards federation does need to be taken with a lot of salt. Corporations using open platforms or open source to make their money has always resulted in power imbalances that, left unchecked, may become impossible to solve without concessions from said corporation, or else [X] thing just gets hung out to dry.

You have to hope the people running that company understand that these problems exist, and actively work against ruining everything for everyone else that relies on it.

I work for an online retailer for computer components. Reddit helped/helps give me perspective of what people think about tech products, what they're looking to buy, and I used it to keep up with the news in the hardware-focused subreddits. Reddit's community is sufficiently large enough that there are opinions you can read from enthusiasts to homelabbers to people who don't know what to do when Windows screws up their Radeon Software installation.

As a former technical writer, it helps fill in gaps about things I don't know enough about, like where people on lower budgets actually choose to spend their money in a build, and whether or not the RTX 4060 is actually terrible, as opposed to it not meeting expectations of an audience that it's not aimed at.

The undercut for the slicks was really well timed, good call from Mercedes to trust George's feel out on track.

Ah, Russian boot-licking.

Given the... frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and...

I mean it's getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve.

Carlos doing so well to control Max's attack.

That will see more increases over time, especially as Windows 10 EOL approaches.

That's not a realistic proposal if Facebook volunteers dev resources to improve and support ActivityPub and we grow to rely on that. In the same way that Google co-opted the W3C to now just accept Chrome as the default, I can see something similar happen if Threads really kicks off and has a ton of effort put into it.

It's a lot more grey than you'd expect given the absurd resources that nation states have compiled to try and usurp Google's dominance, but all the same I'd rather not have the internet rely on something made by a publicly traded company that cuts projects on a whim.

That's probably why digital displays still have analog speedometer options. At a glance it's easier to tell what's happening with your speed, rev count, and other levels like fuel.

But much of that utility is useful for manuals and ICE-powered cars.