Absolutely!
Big Social Media shares many characteristics of a drug, with similar anti-social consequences by overuse. But as with drugs, social media is just a symptom of the underlying problem.
Oh, thanks! I must have followed a gift link via Doctorow’s social because I didn’t encounter the paywall.
Most of the people who organize on SocialHub use this Matrix space to discuss fediverse development:
https://matrix.to/#/%23fediverse-developer-network:matrix.org
Maybe we could get everyone in here instead? They’re eager to decentralize the ownership of the org, so representatives from the Lemmy community would be very welcome to step into leadership roles.
I think something like this can work, if you bring humans fully into the loop. Posts should be made by people, so that someone’s responsible for the thread that gets made.
What about a ‘repost queue’ of Reddit that Lemmy users can sign up for? Having signed up to this queue, e.g. for /r/rust, I’d be presented with a list of the posts on /r/rust that do not yet exist on .dev/c/rust. Every hour or so I could opt to do a repost to Lemmy, from my own account.
In other words you’re just facilitating a manual action that’s already taking place.
Yep. It’s Mastodon-compatible. Currently it’s UI-less (backend-only) like GoToSocial.
Thanks for the tip! I’ll reach out to them.
Congrats! Photon looks amazing, both on Desktop and mobile. Great work 👏
Just hypothetically speaking: Would you be okay with Photon being adopted as the new official frontend for Lemmy?
I have no say in this, but I feel like it’s something the Lemmy team should consider.
I’ve been reading a lot of your exchanges on the Lemmy GitHub and I can tell you with a high degree of confidence that you are not the subject of a hazing ritual. What’s going on is a miscommunication issue; there’s no ill will directed towards you.
The Lemmy devs are under a great deal of stress these days due to the recent influx of activity, both on the big Lemmy instances as well as the Lemmy GitHub. You’ve clearly gone to great lengths to investigate various SQL bottlenecks in Lemmy, and this work does not go unnoticed or unappreciated.
The problem you’re likely running into is that the Lemmy devs are trying to address a wide array of issues, whereas you are zoomed in on some very specific performance problems. Whether or not the core devs are wrong when they say your findings are irrelevant is beside the point. What they are really saying is that they do not have the attention bandwidth to try to see what you are seeing right now.
If you find yourself unable to work with the Lemmy project, there are other fedi projects in Rust like Mitra or Kitsune which might be more receptive to your contributions. I’m personally very interested in seeing rudimentary Lemmy (Groups et.al.) compatibility in Kitsune.
Yeah, just a single instance recommendation is best imo. Having to choose between two instances is still a significant mental load compared to the singular options most people are used to when joining a new platform.
Lua in pure Rust: https://github.com/kyren/piccolo