Good to see Lemmy grow, but I hope that the decentralization will work out so that the large influx of new users will spread out as evenly as possible. General purpose instances help balancing the load, and last time I checked join-lemmy.org there have been several general purpose instances, which seems promising.

I think, for mass appeal lemmy will ultimatively need communities for popular topics (games, trends, etc.), which can bring in lots of new users. From what I've seen so far the topics are still rather niche, or can't compete with identical communites on major platforms. When the traction starts getting big enough, it might just run on its own.

This comment is also more or less a test, trying out the platform.

I assume that there is something that is O(N), which explains why wait time scales with community size (amount of posts, comments)

I first saw lemmy a few months ago, but forgot about it. The recent Reddit events have sparked interest again, and I am feeling adventurous. Major Social media platforms seem to collapse / mess up one after the other now, and the concept behind federation is very intriguing (especially that part that even different applications can communicate with each other thanks to ActivityPub).

If you didn't tell I wouldn't even have noticed, awesome work!

I got a random "Report created" notification in the bottom left of the screen while viewing this post? Has this happened to anyone?

Try pacman -Syu or just yay, if it doesn't work after that get new mirrors from here: https://archlinux.org/mirrorlist/, and paste them into /var/pacman.d/mirrorlist. Comment out/in mirrors as needed. If you did the latter, do a full system upgrade (yay) again just in case

Just looked. First 1/2 loads were slow but after that it's lighting fast! I think by not everyone establishing a Websocket connection and just loading once performance should increase a tad bit.

This worked, Thanks!

Another problem I see is monopolization. If there is only one platform with no competition, there is no incentive to innovate. Good example is YouTube. No one can just afford tbps of bandwidth and exa or even zettabytes of storage, so federation (PeerTube) is a way to balance and distribute the load over many individual servers/nodes. (PeerTube also uses a p2p streaming mechanism to reduce strain on the server)

I wrote this more or less for fun; it is slightly more extensive than the installation guide geared for a more advanced setup. The wiki is mentioned in the article as well and is encouraged to be used too

You might install an older kernel version from /var/cache/pacman/pkg and then regenerate the initramfs. If not using NVIDIA, it's very easy to have multiple kernels installed (e. g. linux, linux-lts) to have another option if one kernel causes trouble.

I'd generally recommend having the lts or mainline kernel additionally if you use custom kernels, like zen or self compiled

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Lemmy also has an API that clients can get information/content from. The Web frontend (lemmy.world) is one of them. Apps like wefwef and Jerboa also ask the Lemmy API for content and display it in their own way.

Yeah, and in the Open Source nature of the fediverse applications alternate frontends will also be able to thrive. (though the main fediverse app frontends come less cluttered / cleaner out of the box)

I almost never fluke, my consistency is horrible :( (with higher difficulty it easily feels like RNG and waiting for the lucky attempt)

Then one must either resort to the official youtube frontend (which is still bearable as long as content blockers work normally, I could not imagine getting spammed with ads) or using other ways of watching like PeerTube. Circumvention should always be possible in a way though as long as Google doesn't employ DRM on YouTube videos.

Google might start messing up the alternate frontend Invidious too (the exception The video returned by YouTube isn't the requested one. (WEB client) (VideoNotAvailableException) started appearing, which is still fixable though), which is a nice option to view yt without the clutter, especially when not logged in.

In case you know the media player mpv, you can pass yt links directly into it and view just the video through it. You need to have yt-dlp installed for this. Then you can type

$ mpv 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=....'

This is more for Linux though, idk how it is for Windows

Maybe Guides / Information could be shown on the lemmy web frontend by default to lower the entry barrier?

I play since 2016 and had around 42k stars when 2.2 released