basequal

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Democrats worry their most loyal voters won’t turn out for Biden in 2024 in c/politics@lemmy.world
[–] basequal@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I’m sorry to bring up Reddit, but being interested in US politics (I’m not from the US) I’m impressed with the level of discussion here.

Almost every political reddit comment section I’ve encountered was a cesspool of such polarized left vs right opinions that anything more nuanced and centered was buried right away.

GREAT NEWS about Lemmy Server Performance, another major SQL mistake has been discovered today: every single comment & post create (INSERT) is updating ~1700 rows in the site_aggregates table in c/lemmyperformance@lemmy.ml
[–] basequal@lemmy.world 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I am always fascinated with these types of comments, specifically for a free and open-source software. There are lemmy instances supporting hundreds of thousands of users and trafic, feedback from both server owners and lemmy devs is almost instantaneous.

A platform like lemmy requires client side knowledge to build both desktop and mobile UI (that are performant), it requires ActivityPub knowledge to integrate with the Fediverse, it requires backend knowledge to build APIs for 100% feature compatibility with 3rd party apps. It requires DB knowledge to optimize queries, it requires devops / platform knowledge to deploy it.

And all of this is built in public.

BuT LEMmY tEaM lAcks dEvEloPmenT SkiLL – sure buddy.

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How are Lemmy federated servers handling cross platform posting, commenting and upvoting? (lemmy.world)
 

What are some good resources to learn and get an overview of how federation between servers is actually handled?

I am aware that data is shared / duplicated between instances, but I want to know the actual technical scope of it – and how is the data flowing and being stored.

Greece illegal immigrant boat disaster: More than 300 Pakistanis dead in Mediterranean tragedy, official says in c/world@lemmy.world
[–] basequal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

TBF the boat disaster could have been a rescue story as well if someone cared enough. There are two major countries naval fleets in the Atlantic, whereas the story is much different in the Mediterranean.

I Destroyed a $500,000,000 Ponzi Scheme in c/videos@lemmy.world
[–] basequal@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it really adds a great touch to the informative content.

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I Destroyed a $500,000,000 Ponzi Scheme (youtu.be)