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?

Amazing work mlem team! Using it right now and the profile page is indeed gorgeous!

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.

Wow such a nice quality of life change!

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.

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.

thanks, not sure how I missed the prime listing on GitHub! Rock on

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.

Oh shit it actually worked, upvotes for all. Sorry for shitting on you mLem!

I still can’t get my iOS app to let me comment

Excellent, just saved this.

Same haha. Let’s get this fucking party started!