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Remember: "friends don't let friends use us-east-1"

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So, how do we think this ends?
Lemmy has quickly surpassed 100k users.
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    darius
    1y ago 100%

    Cloudflare can protect against DDOS. In this instance the people are ddosing the server, although not intentionally. There are just a lot of people trying to open the site. So it's not malicious but still an "attack", which cloudflare's service mitigates. In reddit it was called the "reddit hug of death", when small sites kneeled down because a post got popular with their links in it.

    And yes, there are, the second largest is fedia.io You can find more here:

    https://fedidb.org/software/kbin

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  • why does Reddit want us to use the official app so badly?
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    darius
    1y ago 100%

    To quote ljdawson, the dev of Sync for reddit: "Apart from crashes I don't track shit."

    He was asked how many API calls Sync's users have on average. He simply couldn't answer. That's why we loved 3rd party apps.

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  • Megathread for Reddit Blackouts and News - Day 2
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    darius
    1y ago 100%

    Yepp, it works surprisingly well. I assume one of the similar communities will eventually "win" on one of the instances, like with similar subreddits over time. Also some instances will go full specific, like nature or movies or gaming etc. See the growth of lemmynsfw already, lol.

    I'm really liking it a lot. I wasn't too amused by Mastodon either, but as you say: for link aggregation, for specific communities, for discussing topics (and not being about people, but about topics) this is a perfect match.

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  • Lemmy has quickly surpassed 100k users.
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    darius
    1y ago 100%

    On kbin.social specifically, federation is currently broken. The server saw a lot of stress because of the influx of new users and the dev turned on the cloudflare check, so that instance won't kneel down. That broke the federation, other instances cannot go through that check.

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  • Do you all still use your old username?
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    darius
    1y ago 100%

    No, I've changed it.

    My reddit name became known to a couple of my friends during the 10 years I was there and I want the total anonymity again.

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    fuck u/spez 1y ago
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    Some Reddit 3PA's are going subscription-only and I just want to vent
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    darius
    1y ago 100%

    At some point last year they had 1400 employees. One thousand fucking four hundred.
    For a link aggregation site.

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    darius
    1y ago 100%

    I'm just speculating of course, too, but could be some kind of sharding e.g. in the DB level. I can imagine the little subreddits draw little traffic hence fewer shards are allocated to them (like how S3 works).

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