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  • In addition to what the other commenter said, Mozilla doesn’t have the will to improve Firefox into a market contender.

    They get a lot of free money from their competitors to prevent legislations from attacking chromium for market monopoly which makes them prioritize making Google happy more than their users.

    They also have very controversial opinions regarding actual useful features such as progressive web apps (where support was given exclusively on Android but after a lot of complains). You can’t make your browser into a market contender if you act like Safari on PC.

    10 years ago when we had a 3 way market, Mozilla actually cared about making a good product.

    Nowadays, they are just Google’s shell company to keep Chrome’s dominance away from the anti-competivity law suits.



  • How is that a rip off? You pay 20€ once and get the ability to sideload any UWP app and develop for the console.

    Compare it to both Nintendo and Sony where:

    • You have to pay multiple times the price of the console for the dev kit
    • You don’t own said dev kit
    • Their SDKs are not publicly accessible
    • You have to sign multiple NDAs on top of all those issues
    • Assuming you have no problem with all this, you can be rejected as a developer for any reason

    Considering how locked consoles were and still are (Except for the PS3 “other OS”) period. Being able to get a decent current gen console, that doubles as an emulator, with development capabilities for an additional 20 euros is a gift, not a rip-off.





  • Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.livetoAsklemmy@lemmy.mlHow will lemmy scale?
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    The database isn’t really the problem in the current state of things. The server is because:

    • Until 0.18 there was no caching (for the UI) and the poorly implemented websockets
    • The developers have admited that they aren’t proficient in SQL, in which case, why not using an ORM instead? Sure, they aren’t perfect but they will do better than the average developer at scale.
    • There is no queue system for activityPub requests
    • Because there is no queue, user requests and federation have the same priority when it shouldn’t and one can bottleneck the other
    • Live inserts are used meaning that regardless of the DB used, performance is going to be killed since inserting data 1 at a time several times a second is a major waste of resource

    Tl;dr: It’s trying to do everything and not that well. So users suffer because they have to share resources with non-UI related tasks.

    The database suffer because it has to do an insert of 1 object X 50 times in a second when it could do it once for all 50 items.

    Federation suffers because you can’t offload it to a seperate machine farm whose job will be to receive and send ActivityPub requests and send/read data from the correct queues to do so.




  • Irisos@lemmy.umainfo.livetoLinux@lemmy.mlJeff Geerling stops development for Redhat
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    Oracle Linux is 100% the cause of this change.

    Imagine supporting 2 other distros to make your own enterprise linux that is your only source of money through optional subscriptions to it.

    Then some other big unethical corporation (much like your own parent company) comes in, use the GPL license to clone it and slap an “Oracle db certified” sticker on it. Finally, they decide to use the same subscription model as you except they get insane margins since you did 99% of the work for them.

    But looking at what Rocky Linux is saying publicly. It’s not impossible that Red Hat won’t levy their right to remove access to the sources to non-commercial forks of RHEL.


  • Even if you own an instance, the tools are non-existent.

    Some basics things that should be present but aren’t:

    • A user directory for search and deletion
    • Possibility to block communities for your whole instance
    • Basic statistics. Both on the community and instance level
    • Possibility to mute a user without banning them
    • Allow creating a community but only after admin approval (right now it’s free for all or admin only)
    • Easy access to server logs without having to dig directly inside the hosting server
    • Importing block/allow lists for federations using a file or url
    • Adding an administrator from the server admin UI

    The API is also lacking in a way that some of those things are not possible without deploying your own API talking directly with the postgress database.

    For example, if you wanted to see upvote/downvotes for each individual users, the data to calcultate it is in the database but the Lemmy API doesn’t provide that functionality.

    While Lemmy is great as a platform, the management side of is glueing everything together just enough to not let it implode.


  • The issue is that it could still be abused against small instances.

    For example, I had a bit less than 10 bots trying to signup to my instance today (I had registration with approval on) and those account are reported as instance users even though I refused their registration.

    So even if you don’t allow spam accounts to get into your instance, you can easily get blacklisted from that list because creating a few dozen thousands account registration requests isn’t that hard even against an instance protected by captcha.