Can you add TOTP support?

You can’t scroll some of the ads, that’s one of the problems.

There are video ads that remain on the bottom of the page regardless of what you do. Same for image ads.

I’m trying to read an article and there is distracting ads all over the page.

Ads back in 90s were subtle, I have zero problems with textual google ads in the article but videos and images that is also slowing down my experience with its large downloads?

Sites are like loading 10m of content for a 2kb text article. Come on.

Nobody said anything about posts. Activities could mean extra metadata like “someone joined”, “someone changed”, posted, edited, etc.

Most of the time, these isn’t required after a short while.

Speed/pref and capacity are two separate things. I/O has nothing to do with the size of the database. You can write 100TB per second into the database and choose to only store 1TB of content. That does not mean the app is writing 1TB per second, it is still writing 100TBps.

They said they changed how the activities data is stored, which reduced the size by 80%; here’s one of the changes they made: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3103

As you can see, the issue here is that they were storing a lot of data in the activities table that is not needed, it was only meant for debug purposes. So, they split up the data into two and not store the other data as it isn’t needed; they’re still writing these data the same as before. One part is used to ensure they don’t re-process the same data but this is the same thing they were doing before this change.

In addition, they’ve limited how long the data is retained for 3 months, which is a separate job they run to remove data.

All of this has zero impact on the users using the app right now. The main benefit is for instance admins with limited storage. One might say the system slows down if there’s not enough space but that is still the same case here with this MR, it will still slow down.

They’re in the position of authority and there is a chain of command, soldiers are trained from the very beginning to obey the chain of command without questions.

To climb the ladder or gain more power, they have to look good. They’re not going to get promoted if their records have any “negatives”.

Who is going to verify the reports? Their bosses, which means they also have the same incentives to only want good stuff, in order for themselves to get any considerations for promotions.

When their boss goes up, the boss under them will likely get promoted too.

What the boss said, goes. There are usually far more consequences toward the victims and whistleblowers than the actual authorities.

That’s why there should be independent review process where these folks have no incentive to have good reports.

Funnily enough, this is the feature that can speed up the performance by doing less calls:

The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load.

Is it me or is the 80% figure just insane?

Not really, you’d be surprised how often systems are bloated all because of a single option, character, etc. Most developers don’t start optimizing until much later in the software’s lifecycle. Often enough, it is easily overlooked. That’s why code reviews are needed often with fresh pair of eyes.

Just to set the expectations, reducing database size or CPU usage does not necessarily mean it is faster but it does mean there’s more free capacity on the servers to handle more users at the same performance.

More importantly; they may help reduce costs on the smaller indie instances that doesn’t need to buy larger server instances.

Hopefully, we’ll continue to see more of these optimizations.

Wow, thank you. I acutally was hoping you were going to add this becasue Alexandrite is the best desktop UI for Lemmy so far.

It also means Lemmy.world is turning into the best instance already because they’re the most user-friendly and customizable one.

Great work!

FYI: I got rated limited on the first link but the second time worked right away. There might be some glitch there.

Chromium is open source, you can inspect the source code and build it yourself. It’s not spyware by default.

If you’re going to try to get people to switch to Firefox, give them a legit reason.

Also, Firefox itself has telemetry that some would say is spyware. Not to mention, Mozilla has done some sketchy stuff themselves. Recent one is enforcing blocking of extensions on specific domains without user’s intervention and picking out their own preferred extensions. (https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/7/1.html)

Yep, it’s on us to help move the content and people over to Lemmy. People and search engine will continue to default to Reddit. Eventually so much content will be on Lemmy/Kbin that reddit becomes a thing of the past, hopefully.

What distro are you using, what is the rest of the system’s spec.

CPU isn’t enough to tell us anything.

I’d suggest if you want stock and recent Gnome, stick with Fedora.

Pop is building their own DE that they will switch to sometime in 2023. Which also mean they will remain 22.04 till then.

I’m waiting for VanillaOS 2.0 release to see if it is any better.