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CoderKat
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I suspect twitter is similar. But a difference between Reddit and twitter is how easily power users can migrate.
On twitter, you follow people. Power users were often cautious cause they didn't want to lose their followers and non power users wanted to be where the power users are.
But on Reddit, you follow communities. For power users, there's few direct followers to lose and for non power users, as long as there's enough content, it doesn't matter much who created it.
I was personally thinking more along the lines of if we could have a load balancer whose sole job is to route users to a random set of possible instances (which can all be administered by the same person, so that you're still joining the instance "group" that you want). The load balancer would route someone the first time they land on the page and also handle logins. That's it.
I'm assuming that the servers we're talking about are single servers, because that's how things sound. I'm personally used to only developing servers that use the "many servers behind a load balancer" approach. While distributed databases can certainly make those easier, in the absence of support for that, you could always run the backends as entirely separate servers, with the load balancer just serving to pick the backend. So you'd have a lemmy1.world and so on.
Of course, for all I know, maybe this is already the architecture of a Lemmy instance. I've never checked. Even with a good architecture, scaling can be difficult. An unnoticeable performance issue in a dev environment can be a massive bottleneck when you have tens of thousands of concurrent users.
It'd help a lot if we had a convenient way to export a user profile to a different instance. It doesn't even need to attribute posts/comments in any way. Just saving settings, subscriptions, and blocks would be plenty for most people.
🎵99 little bugs on the wall🎶
Doge might be confusing because Dogecoin is a thing and IIRC it's super cheap (which Daddy Elon's tweets ain't).
You should expand your horizons! Beans just come in so many variants. You got baked beans, half baked beans, twice baked beans (and so on), Lima beans, string beans, chili beans, things that look like beans but aren't (looking at you, peanuts are a legume), and the list goes on!
his disdain for the poors.
Correction: his disdain for everyone who isn't himself. He doesn't even treat his own kids well. His trans daughter changed her name to not be associated with him.
Do you have to throw it into a volcano to destroy it, too?
Officials said it is estimated Mr Hernandez fell nearly 200ft and that "alcohol impairment was likely a contributing factor in the fall."
In case anyone's wondering what being "prepared" would mean.
Parents, talk to your kids about beans. Because if you don't, someone else will and you can't quality control who that someone else will be
I was thinking more Bioshock embodies Musk exactly. Both of the settings, in fact.