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  • My non-tech wife tried to tell me “obviously that’s why it’s called that” when I’ve been writing software (and even some minor firmware hacking) for 30 years.

    Is this the real life?

  • Good public RSS torrent feeds?

    It seems many of the public Torrent trackers took down their RSS option. Are there any non-private trackers that have solid RSS feeds of their torrents?

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    Is this the replacement for the reddit r/piracy?
  • Honestly this community seems to generate even more useful content than r/piracy did for me. Already I’ve learned about 5 great replacements for rargbto, the beauties of torrent aggregator desktop clients, and awesome debrid streaming for iOS via WebDAV. Great stuff

  • Does Lemmy really benefit from Rust? Is code execution speed the bottleneck?
  • Rust itself or the way the Rust logic is implemented is not the bottleneck. Like most decent web applications the bottleneck is the database and how the decentralized protocols themselves are reconciled there.

    Scaling massive amounts of records like Lemmy has been forced to is almost always IO bound at the database level even when a web service is centralized; this is much more difficult in federated architectures. This is why “NoSQL” databases have increased in popularity, but they are also not a magic bullet as there are major ACID trade offs one needs to consider.

  • The Lemmy User Experience is Better When Centralized into Fewer Instances
  • This isn’t “one or the other” IMO. There’s room for niche instances hyper-focused on a generalized topic like “math,” “comp sci,” “sports,” etc.

    But then there should also be a massive generalized instance (hopefully 2 at least so the competition keeps admins in check) that has a little bit of everything and acts as a Reddit replacement. We can have our cake and eat it too.

  • Timeline not changing frequently?
  • I’ve seen other posts say this is a bug introduced in the version of Lemmy deployed yesterday.

    It definitely should be a top priority for the team to fix though — it seems to have really exacerbated the problem.

  • ANNOUNCEMENT: defederating effective immediately from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works
  • I definitely do find this a little disappointing as I think the Lemmy community is too small at the moment to create unnecessary divides and schisms. Success in my mind is predicated on many communities from Reddit coming to servers and forming a common denominator community that achieves critical mass.

    It’s clear to me that some of the communities on the 2 you are defederating from you instance have become more popular and are already the defacto “place to be” for certain subreddits.

    All that said, I’m happy that my main server (infosec.pub) has not unfederated from those 2 instances so I am able to still participate on those 2 servers AND interact here on my “main” account. This lets me get the best of both worlds. It’s very exciting to see the Lemmy model working in that regard!

  • Lemmy and Mastodon feel like the real web3.
  • Yeah I definitely agree -- you summarized my feelings nicely.

    I would also add that as exciting concepts/technologies grow and commercialize they tend to become more subject to noise and self-interest interfering with some of their higher order "platonic" (ideal) forms. I fundamentally think that the more federated/decentralized a service can be, the better its original purpose and perfect form can be maintained. Practically I do think it's challenging for both currency and link aggregation to be properly decentralized, but I think both Bitcoin and Lemmy are inherently beautiful implementations if you strip them down to their core.

  • Lemmy and Mastodon feel like the real web3.
  • I mean I definitely agree that this feels great, but decentralization and federation is what pure Bitcoin and crypto are all about. In many ways this community reminds me of the good vibes and great minds the early days of cryptocurrency discovery encouraged. This predated some of the corruption, VCs, and crypto bros that came around in 2013 during the first boom.

    I still think that early soul of empowerment and community is there in Bitcoin itself but you gotta dig a little deeper to find it. I expect Lemmy will also “commercialize” to some extent in coming years, but it’ll always be better than Reddit and other centralized platforms that want to feature gate and censor unfairly.

  • Slack To Introduce GPT Features
  • Hey not everything needs to be federated! I’m a huge decentralization advocate for large scale community resources but for most commercial settings a centralized service like Slack will do the trick!

  • Why is it named Lemmy?

    ChatGPT tells me it was named after Lemmy Kilmeister, but this seems off. Who named it?

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    Dipping my toes into developing a Lemmy client.. Whats the best place to ask questions? :)
  • I’ve been wondering the same!

    Does anyone know of any Lemmy dev communities (preferably a Lemmy community but I’d settle for a Discord) dedicated to resource for software devs to learn the protocol? I’m interested in creating bots to help Reddit users and subreddits migrate here.

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    Thank you Jerry!

    Just wanted to say thank you for putting this Instance up. It seems lightning fast and I had no trouble logging in, unlike almost all the other Lemmy instances I tried during this mass Reddit exodus.

    Really appreciate you @jerry@infosec.exchange!

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