I'm very curious: does single Lemmy instance have the ability to horizontally scale to multiple machines? You can only get so big of a machine. You did mention a second container, so that would suggest that the Lemmy software is able to do so, but I'm curious if I'm reading that right.

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Wow, I didn’t realize the Reddit to Digg migration was so drawn out. Do we know how big the initial migration to Reddit actually was in terms of user count? It seems like Lemmy/Kbin are seeded with a few tens of thousands of users, and I wonder how it compares.

Wait, what? I distinctly recall that the 2020 version was supposed to be a 10 year game…

This is incredible. It feels so cozy being able to browse lemmy in an Apollo-like UI. I didn’t realize how much I missed it.

Even if he actually thought that, why the fuck would you say that right now when a large amount of your community is revolting against you? Comments like these are only further destabilizing a bad situation. If I was on the board, and even if I fully supported the changes, I would have him removed for adding more fuel to the fire.

This is so good that I almost wish it was the default theme.

Interesting, how does that actually work then? Are they just sharing the same database? Is that a supported configuration?

Honestly I think it’s this. All these tech companies finally being pressed to show ROI now that the risk-free rate of return is much higher.

In fact they could have talked transparently about their opex and asked for a simple donation drive every now and then like Wikipedia.

This reminds me of when Reddit used to show their monthly server costs and ask that people get gold to help offset it.

It’s my attempt to seed this community with high quality material so that it doesn’t end up in the same sorry state as r/mbti :)

It could be a suck-up investment play. The problem with hoping a narc like Elon invests in you is that the second you’re not useful to them, they will dispense with you like a dirty cumsock. See: all the people who tried to suck up to Donald Trump and ended up with damaged reputations.

Reddit seems to be in a bad way financially. Their investors have written them down. They’re still making losses. They’re laying people off. They’re implementing these absurd API changes. They need to make a lot of changes to monetize something that’s hard to monetize, and I think that this is a sign of much worse things to come for them and their users. Despite their success at online relevancy, they’re actually a bad business and I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point they got bought out by private equity and picked apart.

The sad part is that it didn’t need to be this way. I think in trying to get hyper-growth and relevancy among normies, they ended up investing too much into areas that would help them do that. If they had stayed content to remind a simple forum, I think they could have been a sustainable business. But the VCs demand to have a unicorn, I guess.

Feels bad man :(

I’m using it right now and am honestly amazed at how Apollo-like it is.

For me, that’s a low bar! HackerNews just has this vibe that I can’t get on with. It seems like everyone there actually just hates technology and there’s a lot of negativity and cynicism. Something like that, at least. I can’t put my finger on it exactly, but I get a mild sense of dread just opening it up, let alone reading the comments. It’s not a feeling I used to get when reading other tech-oriented discussion boards like, say, /r/rust, where you just get to see a bunch of cool stuff other people have built or people helping each other out.

Swift just got this (for switch statements too), and my god is it great.

Passing around references works, but then you have to deal with ownership issues. Often the motivation for cloning a Vec or String is just to avoid dealing with lifetimes and to get ownership, but the mutability isn’t actually required. In these situations I think the video’s recommendation to use an Arc is actually a good one.