empireOfLove

@empireOfLove@lemmy.one

DEAD ACCOUNT. Lemmy.one does not have active administration and I need to move on. Catch me over at dbzer0: lemmy.dbzer0.com/u/empireOfLove2

Yet another Reddit refugee from the great 3rd party app purge of 2023. Obligatory fuck /u/Spez.

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empireOfLove,

Jesus. That's pretty bad. That kind of metal is real bad to get into your bloodstream.

At least its self-cauterizing, I guess!

empireOfLove,

Hahahah, that's peak kid logic right there

"Yeah this sharp staple goes right thru paper... bet my soft squishy finger can stop it tho"

Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists, womens rights AND trans rights. Linux is political! (cdn.masto.host)

Linus' thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can't seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)

@morgthorak I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me. Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order. I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you? I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with. And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.
empireOfLove,

Linus gives exactly zero fucks about saying exactly what's on his mind. And it's almost always massively based. He's always been great about that, we don't deserve such a great mind.

empireOfLove,

All these websites have almost always been net cash flow negative. They bleed venture capital to provide a service below cost in order to build a user base.

The problem now is interest rates have spiked. Rates have been basically zilch for much of the internet's history over the past 20+ years, so sites could actually operate for quite some time on super cheap debt that they almost never had to repay. And venture capital firms would just keep pouring money into the "next best thing".

Now that debt is rapidly becoming much more expensive to maintain, and those VC investors want their chunk of the pie back in their pockets. And they are going to extract it from every single one of these centralized services by whatever force is necessary. It's only just getting started, you watch.

empireOfLove,

But advertising is also where 90% of their revenue comes from- so really, given the service is "free", what is the product?

empireOfLove,

The point of Reddit, and now Lemmy by extension, is a sort of link aggregator + comments. As with all content: sure, general sites all exist for that porn, but sometimes if you want more specific categories it's a lot easier to have community collected content that is sorted.

If someone wishes to spin up an instance for it, so be it. You are welcome to ignore it and not federate with it. That's the point of the fediverse.

empireOfLove,

It looks like about the 1k active user mark is where the Lemmy instance starts to use too many resources. lemmy.ml has blown past that with 1.7k active and almost 40k total registered users, and they're having a lot of performance issues over there.

Hope they can build a good scaling framework into the Lemmy backend pretty damn quick, because nobody is going to survive the Reddit influx otherwise.

empireOfLove,

I have a very limited understanding, but, yes. A few thpusand is ok so far, but The database managing post contents becomes the bottleneck as it simply cannot be updated fast enough. No single instance can handle that much traffic, it has to be horizontally scaled somehow.

empireOfLove, (edited )

Ok, so the best analogy is: a database is a warehouse. Every user has a shelf in this warehouse, and they add and take stuff to it at random. The workers in the warehouse move stuff in and out of the doors as orders (user requests) come in and out.

You can build the warehouse taller and wider to hold more shelves (vertical scaling of hardware), but only to a point before the forklift trucks can’t reach and driving across the warehouse for one order would take too long.
You can similarly add more workers (CPU power) and more doors (faster storage/memory) to your warehouse to handle more orders at one time, but these also have limits because the warehouse is only so big. And there’s eventually a point where no amount of workers or doors or shelf space will improve throughput, because the roads around the warehouse are clogged with trucks.

At this point the obvious solution is horizontal scaling- build a new warehouse somewhere else nearby, and a small office building (load balancer) that directs new orders to each of the warehouses evenly. Then you have the office occasionally check in with both warehouses to make sure they both have the same stuff to fulfill any given order (synchronizing instances). And as orders continue to increase, you can just keep adding more and more horizontal warehouses- all of which are individually somewhat small and simple, but effectively infinitely scalable compared to the vertical mega-warehouse we tried to build originally.

Lemmy tries to build in the horizontalness by having separate instances federate and share data automatically without the need for that “front office”. However the issue still stands that individual instances are going to need to handle hundreds of thousands of users for the Lemmy ecosystem to really thrive, and that is going to take a ton of back end database engineering to allow individual instances to scale as well as the fediverse network as a whole.

empireOfLove,

Of course, glad to help!

empireOfLove,

I am also interested in anything you learn about the horizontal scaling. Once I get some free time I'm planning to open my own instance for car culture related stuff and want to be learning ahead of the curve just in case there are legit traffic spikes.

I was under the impression that the lemmy DB did not scale safely without some core code rewrites.

empireOfLove,

Neat; would care if I actually used Chrome.

empireOfLove,

Hey, you wanna sign the guest book on my website? I can add your site to my web ring too!

empireOfLove,

Wow, that was a fast reply, and from the instance owner himself. Thanks for the welcome, Jonah!

Damnit, I forgot not everything runs on ARM… I’ve been running Java minecraft servers for too long lol. I have repurposed office PC’s if x86 is required, although at that point I’d probably just go pay the $5/mo for a low spec cloud server somewhere.

Berty Messenger, a Cross-Platform Open Source Decentralized Messaging App That Can Work Offline Over Bluetooth (berty.tech)

Has anyone here tried the Berty Messenger app? It's a cross-platform encrypted messenger with the ability to communicate over Bluetooth. I'm really impressed with how capable it is already, but wouldn't rely on it for anything too sensitive in it's early state. To me, it looks like a great way to send offline messages in the...

empireOfLove,

Huh, messaging via Bluetooth is a neat trick I didn't know I needed. Makes a ton of sense, I could have used this quite a bit during some sporting events where device density in the stands absolutely ruined any chance of cellular or wifi data but I needed to talk with team mates.

I might give it a whirl and see if it has just a dedicated Bluetooth mode. I'd never use it as my main messaging service ofc, but it looks like a fun alternative on the surface.

What game is improved the most by mods?

I know most of the Bethesda RPGs have massive mod support, and there's games like Minecraft that have more mods than anyone can imagine. I would consider those games pretty playable in their vanilla states. Would you say there are any games that were "saved" by modding? Or that are still kept alive by thriving modding...

empireOfLove,

Aside from the obvious minecraft... Arguably I'd say Factorio. They have a robust, feature-rich modding API built into the game that allows for relatively easy, wide ranging game play mods to be made very stable, and the number of mods has exploded as a result. The base game is amazing, but mods exist that quite literally triple the amount of game play and in some cases completely overhaul it into a totally new game. The support is amazing, and I wish more game companies could operate as efficiently as Wube does.

empireOfLove,

Lol, Reddit permabanned me and my 8 year old 500k karma account for "report abuse" after trying to report obvious bot accounts interacting in bad faith and reposting spam. Bot accounts generating "engagement" are more important to show investors for the IPO than users trying to maintain content quality, of course. How dare I report them!

I was already gonna leave once my Reddit Is Fun quit working, but the ban only hastened my transition to something better... like lemmy! Sucks for Reddit, I generate a lot of content. Their entire app and "new" Reddit is ad infested and disgusting.

empireOfLove,

The hilarious part is that Fidelity, a current investor in Reddit, already cut the valuation of their stake in Reddit by 41%.. Its obvious that investors already see Reddit as a sinking ship and that the social media value bubble run on debt is deflating, now that the free money Fed policy is a distant memory. All these moves are going to do is shutter their company with zero to show for it. Had they just done nothing, their IPO would have probably gone better lmfao. Most intelligent Reddit ceo moment.

empireOfLove,

undefined> Apple is dipping their toes into XR, I wonder if microsoft will follow them later for another chance of the mobile market

Hololens was a thing like, 7 years ago. If anything, Microsoft beat them to this punch, but with a product that sucks so you don't hear about it.

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