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I recently submitted a PR for stopping pictrs image federation. IMO the images themselves do not need to be downloaded when served by another pictrs instance. This would reduce the amount of diskspace and reduce the burden of hosting images that are unwanted by the instance owners.
What are your thoughts on this, and do you think this will be merged? https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3799
A bit technical question: how do you manage to build performant comment trees on frontend?
I know about your decision regarding Threads but what are your thoughts on the blog post from the Mastodon CEO? https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/07/what-to-know-about-threads/ especially the address to the EEE concern
Since the release of Sync for Lemmy, some servers (like Lemmy.world for example) are down quite often, probably because of a huge influx of users. Will something be done about the big increase in down-time across Lemmy servers, and if so, how will that problem be dealt with in the near and far future?
Thank you.
Where did the Lemmy name originated from? How long was the development of Lemmy?
The name is explained in the docs. We worked in Lemmy fulltime for over three years now (and around one year before that in our free time).
https://github.com/lemmynet/lemmy#whys-it-called-lemmy
The first commit was in Feb, 2019, and of course we're still going!
Why is selfhosted Docker such a mess?
And following up: since Lemmy-easy-deploy is so… well… easy, can’t you make that official as well?
Have an advance option where one could configure everything and one where all is done and automatically works for the somewhat less technical admins?
Why is ALL administrative documentation all but absent? Why is there NO documented support for SMTP?
What documentation do you need other than knowing the config fields?
Any thoughts on the "federated community" discussion? I find both positions to have merit, but I think I'm leaning towards community aggregation as an option.
Is there any limitations with the database (postgres)?. I know postgres is one of the best (maybe even best) monolith database (running on one node) at the moment, but will the space be enough? With this in mind, has there been any consideration of migrating to a distributed database like ScyllaDB or CassanraDB to alleviate potential space constraints? On the other hand, if Lemmy doesn't intend to store data for long periods, maybe the capacity of Postgres would suffice. Any thoughts or plans on this? I appreciate your insights on this matter.
A bit late on this, but when can we expect the new rewrite of Lemmy's UI? It seems like a big task.