The Pleroma family of ActivityPub servers are on Elixir and their bottleneck seems to be their awful database schema where everything is JSONB, and even then they’re known to be quite lightweight, so I assume with a proper DB schema it’d work quite well…

this is what happens when lemmy tries to handle microblog content not specifically tailored to it’s exact quirks

What I’m more worried about are posts relating to news mainly. Where even if the immediate first level comments are fine, there are threads that get out of hand really quickly.

I agree that while posts inherently designed to be controversial may not benefit from Active considering the influences voting has (though me being on an instance that has downvotes disabled may be influencing my view here!), Active may make it significantly easier for an otherwise innocent post to devolve into a flame war.

The main excuse for this kind of algorithm seems to be around “promoting discussion”, but in my experience tech that’s intended to promote discussion does inherently promote flame wars too, as they’re extremely difficult if not impossible to distinguish without a human in the loop. I’ve attempted to write something about this on the microblogging side of the fedi, directly influenced by this post

it’s called microblogging

I’m just throwing this out there but having the default sort incentivize comments seems like it’d highlight posts meant to cause flame wars… Is that what we want out of this platform?

tasty tasty lava, yim yum

finally, shorts for women

i just wanted an excuse to share open source perfume yea go take a shower STINKY HEADS!!!

the difficult part isn’t getting in the shower the difficult part is getting out

mnmmgrh worm worter

open source perfume, cuz y’all stink

his ass is NOT reading!!! the words are upside down!

Firefox/mypal bundles its own SSL stack

she’s not narcing she’s asking nano why she doesn’t have any for her

the 0.19 implementation is so half-assed I genuinely think the Lemmy devs just don’t want that functionality but expected quite a lot of backlash if they outright said as much, so they decided to implement something that ticks the box in the “wanted features” list without having any effect

afaik it only blocks communities and explicitly lets users from blocked instances through

all of them that aren’t dedicated to political discussion

see https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/comment/5790630

doesn’t change my overall point /shrug

it works wonderfully if you want a small tight knit community, but not for something that aims to replace something on the scale of twitter (without something extra like federation, which is still not ready in bsky/atproto)

I got this from the curatedtumblr discord the shank key UI doesn’t even let me download videos on mobile

(also remember what I said about custom emojis on Lemmy? yea it looks gigantic from here, might want to avoid using them until apps find a way to differentiate them from regular inline MD images)

i unfortunately only have this one saved, sorry!