I don’t know what kind of engagement to expect, but I made a post encouraging Raddle users to come here. It appeared to be an exclusively leftist space and be an active forum.

Having styled this post as an AMA, I may be unprepared for some of their questions. I haven’t been on here very long, and may be fielding questions that are better directed to Lemmy devs or long-time users. I am happy to x-post questions and answers to their platform on your behalves

Shoutout to @Amorphous@lemmygrad.ml for giving me the idea in the chapo thread

  • HildegardeOP
    6·
    4 years ago

    @dessalines@lemmygrad.ml The thread is hostile, and this question is probably rhetorical. Nonetheless: u/LucyParsonsRocks asks

    Hi eagerwhiteness, I have a question. Why is the technology behind lemmy so horrible? When chapo got banned the site was slow as a doorknob all day. Is dessalines an awful programmer, or is it some kind of anti-tankie conspiracy on behalf of the FBI to make the site look bad?

    • Muad'DibberMA
      10·
      4 years ago

      Side note, before I even started lemmy (and also had the idea for an activitypub / federated reddit), I thought about contributing to postmill. I opened up an issue about adding working torrent magnet links(to make file-sharing more friendly), and the ticket was immediately closed. The dev told me feature-requests are not allowed, as it causes them more work.

      I get that of course, as an open source dev nearly all the work you’re asked to do is free labor, but not even allowing any feature requests from the community, (and the code being php), were signs that we really needed a better alternative.

    • Muad'DibberMA
      101·
      4 years ago

      We’re getting a huge influx of users, and we need to re-work the caching / DB, which is what I’m working on now. And yes I am an awful programmer.

      • calmlamp
        3·
        4 years ago

        I haven’t looked at your code, but it’s worth pointing out that Postmill is basic as shit and the UI is awful because the dev doesn’t care and there are almost no Postmill instances other than Raddle because the dev is a chud who doesn’t take feature requests. (The dev set up their own instance which was down as of checking… I found exactly one Postmill instance that was not raddle which is up in 2020)

        DOS is faster than Windows 10 but that doesn’t mean DOS is better than Windows 10, and also Lemmy is still under development. I just checked the Github and you haven’t even reached a 1.0 release yet. I mean version numbers are entirely arbitrary, but the clear implication to me of being below a 1.0 release is that it’s obviously still under development. Suboptimal performance for software that’s in development isn’t grounds to say “lemmy is horrible.”

        Postmill is an older and more well-established piece of software that aims to do far less than Lemmy. Of course it will be better tuned for performance.

        It’s just anticommunist backbiting and concern trolling and nobody on this forum can expect good-faith engagement from Raddle.

    • HildegardeOP
      3·
      4 years ago

      follow up: “That would be great, comrade. While you’re at it, can you also ask them why lemmy’s database queries take 40ms? Postmill’s only take 2ms. This proved to be an unmitigated disaster when Lemmy got a little bit of traffic the other day and became unusable.”

      • pimento
        9·
        4 years ago

        We are taking care of the database situation, it will just take some time. Not that easy to handle thousands of new users flooding in all of a sudden (plus a ddos).

        Anyway like I said in the other thread, it wont help anything engaging with these people because they obviously already made up their mind. And having more users just means more moderation and admin work for us, and less time coding on federation.

        • HildegardeOP
          6·
          4 years ago

          I guess I was hoping that others (outside of some of the assholes asking questions) might learn about Lemmy and check it out. You’re probably right though, I’m pretty certain these questions are rhetorical and after I’ve been downvoted enough, nobody would listen to me. Asking shit like, “yes, I have a question, why do you suck?”

          • Muad'DibberMA
            7·
            4 years ago

            Its really not a good idea to engage with them, even the reddit anarchist community hates them. They’re a very specific sect of post-left european lifestyle anarchists that harasses any socialists off the site.

            • pimento
              7·
              4 years ago

              Lmao I didn’t even know that there was infighting between different sects of online anarchists.