I missed the AMA, but I saw someone ask about archiving Lemmy and one of you two had mentioned that the instances kinda already do. In a sense they do, but only for subscribed instances. I feel like there could be something a bit more dedicated for the purpose of archival.
Do you have any thoughts or tips on the best way to tackle that? I have a bit of rust experience and willing to look into it.
My guess is that that the UI is waiting for something from the server that hosts the user and therefore the content. That is more or less what I meant with my analogy. Keep in mind that I don’t know this for certain, I am just going off of things that I have heard about how the fediverse works. If a developer for the app or lemmy can weigh in for a more complete answer, that would be great. I could be completely wrong for all I know and am open to knowing more.
If single instances become large enough, finding a way to split those up may be necessary if you can’t just improve it by getting better hardware or optimizing lemmy to run better. I guess we see what becomes necessary.
I am curious to why that might be. It could be for several reasons not related to jerboa. Such as what hardware you are running on, network limitations or issues, whatever you are trying to reach is still trying to be collected by your instance. I don’t really know.
I mean, it could be the app, but I believe it is potentially the instance because an instance with a lot of users is having to feed a whole lot of users at once. Which is much more resource intensive than the way the fediverse was designed to work by sharing with multiple instances to share the load of users constantly scrolling at the same time.
Imagine you were tasked with handing out a thousand hotdogs at a sporting event. You could do it yourself, but you are going to get overwhelmed very quickly and the line is only going to keep building up. Then imagine you have a hotdog delivery network where there are still 1000 hotdogs to be delivered, but you can share the load by having other vendors take 50 hotdogs each and giving them out at their station. The people get their hotdogs faster as they aren’t all waiting on just you and you aren’t overwhelmed being the hotdog overlord.
I personally believe that users need to start spreading out to new instances so we don’t overload the most popular instances. Lemmy was not designed to work like reddit where there is only one hotdog overlord. Lemmy is better built to be used at scale with much smaller vendors. Another neat feature of this concept is that the fediverse can’t be shutdown unless everyone stops selling hotdogs. If one goes down, everything still works fine, you just don’t have whatever that particular instance was giving away. Unlike reddit where if there is a problem, the whole site is down and nobody gets any hotdogs.
Not guaranteed to be the answer, but it might just be the instance you are on being overwhelmed with users. My experience is great personally on a google pixel 3. If you were to try a less common instance, it should improve. Everything works great over here at sh.itjust.works.
Results may vary, but that seems to be a common sentiment. Lemmy was not designed for everyone to be on the same server like reddit is. Create an account somewhere not as popular and see if there is a difference.
Good to know, thanks!