Yeah, it's amazing how quickly things have improved amid a massive influx of new users! Truly impressive!
this post was submitted on 05 Jul 2023
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I'm really enjoying Jerboa. It stays lightweight and fast!
I've been on Jerboa as well. Reminds me of Boost, took no time at all to figure out.
I have also been loving Jerboa.
I would really appreciate the ability to display thumbnails on the left side though.
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As someone who has been here for quite some time before the reddit exodus, it is crazy how much this place has improved in such a short time. I used to check lemmy once or maybe twice a day and then I'd go back to reddit. Now with all the new people posting here, lemmy has replaced reddit for me
I joined too early and stopped looking as there was so little content. In fact, when Lemmy started becoming well-known, I forgot I even had an account and made a new one elsewhere. Luckily, my password manager has a better memory!
Now if only my upvotes would go through. Hopefully the patch that was applied to lemmy.world yesterday addresses that. Their instance seems much more stable and responsive now.
I think the whole Fediverse is struggling with Reddit and Twitter sending a lot of new users their way.
It's struggling less than my RiF app though.
Yup, I joined in 2021 too and it was a ghost town. Just seeing hundreds of comments on posts is a shock.
Yeah, nearly three years ago when I first saw Lemmy I found the idea so cool but I didn't expect people not interested in fun rust projects to actually come here. And here we are now with an active platform with a wide variety of users !
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They’re working so hard. I love it.
Thanks spez! You sent all the best devs making free programs for your platform to your biggest competitor, plus enough users for it to reach critical mass and allow the snowball effect to grow. And it's FOSS so it can't be stopped!
Hell yes. Desktop web interface is solid. Jerboa on Android is solid. Now I'm just working on breaking the habit of typing old.reddit.com while waiting for things during the day...
you can use https://mlmym.org/ if you want to use lemmy with old.reddit interface
Lemmy is different than Reddit, and that's a good thing. I don't need to replicate Reddit. My problem is just the muscle memory habit of opening a tab and typing in o l d . And hitting enter when it autocompletes
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On my phone I've put the Jerboa icon where the Rif icon used to be and sure enough I now open Lemmy 100 times a day out of pure habit
If you use a private DNS such as adguard's or nextdns.io you could blacklist reddit to block it from your devices
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Donate if you want to keep it alive and improving!
Donate to the Lemmy project, but also look at donating to your instance / instance admin. It ain't free to host and operate this stuff.
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And remember that even a Euro per month is enough. It doesn't sound like a lot but if enough people donate just a little, it can grow to a pretty good amount of money.
Where can I go to donate to the Lemmy.World instance?
Look at the sidebar on the main page
It’s amazing to think it has only been a few weeks and I still find it mind blowing how quickly everyone came together for all these projects.
Especially for the level of changes that have taken place. Lemmy basically had a major rewrite to move away from web sockets, and Lemmy.world's operators are running overtime just trying to fix the site up, and make it work for the massive amount of users that they have, addressing a few of the scaling issues in the processing.
Developers have been kicking into overdrive to smooth things out. Web UIs are improving in stability under load, and apps like Wefwef are performing great. Each day people participate, donate, bug report, and audit code, is another day that Lemmy improves its rigidity.
As a very new user, not one too tech savvy either, having constant improvements over the short time I've been here is so refreshing to see! Still getting my head around some of the navigational aspects, but Wefwef has been a blast to use.
Thank you Devs, this is truly a labour of love.
It just needs horizontal so that you could throw more servers at an instance and improve performance.
At some point a single community will be so active that one server won't be enough , it's better not to split it just so that it will be easier for the software.
I'd argue the exact opposite. We should strive for more instances and for Lemmy's userbase to be spread around. The fact that is scaling out (more instances) is easier than scaling up (beefier servers) is a feature, not a bug.
It's not exactly something that you can force. If X amount of users want to join an instance Y, the instance should be able to provide capabilities to host those users. Besides, horizontal scaling provides other benefits, stability is the main one - if one server instance goes down, others can immediately pick up the slack.
Lemmy.ml did exactly that and is one reason why lemmy.world got to be that big.
Once the server capacity is reached the instance should be closed and people will just go to another one.
I don't understand why people feel so happy about lemmy.world being ahead of the rest. It's against the point of the fediverse and has risks: the instance can be sold, can make decisions to put advertisement etc. It's like people didn't really understand what was wrong with reddit to begin with and how the fediverse tries to be different.
the instance should be able to provide capabilities to host those users.
Why? And who pays for that?
Why not? I don't see the drawback to develop ability to do horizontal scaling. If the instance owner doesn't want to add additional servers, it's up to them. Obviously they paid for it if they decide to add.
Just to be clear, horizontal scaling means multiple servers handling same instance, it can be the backend service to allow handling more traffics, or multiple db to reduce database loads.
Additionally it allows high availabilities, so if one of the backend service is down (either unexpectedly or do rolling update) the other service can still active so the instance can still be accessed by users
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Lemm.ee has horizontal scaling, and afaik it's the only lemmy instance to have added it. He has a sticky on meta@lemm.ee that talks about how he's using a half dozen different servers to split the load, although there's a few services that can't be split like image caching, so they just get their own server. I think the changes are being pulled into future updates so hopefully other lemmy instances can start doing the same
Quite literally by the hour I see app updates come in to pave over issues while at the same time developers are working directly with the big instance owners.
If that's not a labor of love for a platform you care about I don't know what is.
I remember when I'd refresh the front page and see posts from the day before. Now it seems like every few hours there's new content. This is a really happening place
I’m honestly surprised how quickly I started to feel at home here :3
Use Wefwef for mobile.
Use it for PC too 😉 Since it's a PWA (Progressive web application) it can be installed (as its own program) on any os with a compatible browser, including Windows, Linux and Mac.
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I'm currently hopping between Liftoff and Connect for my Android client right now, and it's hard to decide. Both are getting regular updates and they're just getting better! The race to improve is very exciting.
Sticking with Connect for the next few days though! Feels very good to use. Lots of customization.
I’m trying out Memmy right now and it seems like I can’t reply to comments, which seems pretty important to me, but other than that it’s good
I hope at some point you can join a community on another server and see all posts, not be restricted to what gets posted from now on. Federated is great, but some way to make it transparent would be cool.
I think you might have a setting wrong. When I join a community on another server I see all of the posts including past ones.
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Still some improvements need to be made but it's way more usable now than before 0.18.0.
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