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r/startrek has just launched its own Lemmy instance
- remram 3y agoDupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341257 Link to Lemmy community: https://startrek.website/c/startrek https://startrek.website/c/startrek
- porphyra 3y ago...aaaand it's down already I love the idea of a fediverse but I am not sure how it can possibly scale up to large communities. As long as people have to spin up their own node to host one, it seems forever limited to small groups of not more than perhaps a few hundreds users.
- Sakos 3y agoAgree. Imo, alternatives like lemmy just poison the well when they can't handle a tiny fraction of the users of a single subreddit.
- remram 3y agoI'm sure Reddit didn't crash ever in the early days, and I'm sure it was handling this kind of traffic from the get-go /s Modern day Reddit couldn't even handle the protests against it.
- Sakos 3y agolemmy doesn't need to compete against 1999's Reddit, or whenever it was released. It needs to compete against modern Reddit, which has massive communities with hundreds of thousands of members.
- remram 3y agoIt doesn't need to do that on with 100% uptime on the day it launches. Especially if Reddit itself is going down this week.
- javajosh 3y agoLike so many people you underestimate the capacity of modern computers. Stack Overflow is famously hosted on like 6 machines. I personally worked on a system that was running on two machines, one a hot backup, that served highly dynamic content to 400k monthly actives.
- renewiltord 3y agoI think you underestimate software engineers. I can bring a 64 core 512 GiB machine to its knees with a trivial program. Imagine what I could do when I'm trying to be productive.
- api 3y agoThis is called Eroom's Law: "Software bloat increases until it consumes all gains from Moore's Law."
- api 3y agoAs with "big data," the threshold for what qualifies as "hyperscale" increases exponentially with time. Hyperscale 10 years ago can be served from a few machines at Hetzner today... if you write efficient software. Big data of 10 years ago can be analyzed on a laptop today. 10 years from now you'll probably be able to host today's Twitter from a shelf in your basement if you could get enough bandwidth. That being said all this is predicated on efficient software. Unfortunately I don’t get the impression the fediverse stuff is that efficient. Isn’t at least some of it Ruby, the slowest platform available? If it were Go, Rust, Java, etc it’d probably be handling the load a lot better. Even PHP is faster by far.
- porphyra 3y agoLemmy is implemented in Rust I thought EDIT: here's a good discussion: https://programming.dev/comment/133415 https://programming.dev/comment/133415
- codetrotter 3y ago
- rjh29 3y agoMaybe that's not such a bad thing.
- codetrotter 3y agoLoads fine for me now. Try again?
- smcleod 3y agoDead for me?
- remram 3y agoThis comment is also a dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341414 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36341414
- dumpsterlid 3y agoSuper cool! A separate fan community like this is huge for longterm fan/community building. It also totally fits the ethos of star trek itself.
- bovermyer 3y agoI get a cert error. Maybe the Let's Encrypt issue?
- wellthisisgreat 3y agoI think what's going to happen with Reddit is people won't drop it for Lemmy but people will use both in parallel and eventually the more engaged / interesting users will leave reddit, and it will be over.
- shagie 3y agoThe sub is set to restricted - nobody except for the mods (and other approved users if they've set them up) can post. It would be curious if Paramount or CBS Studios were to request Reddit hand over the sub for it to moderate as it owns the trademark.
- jacooper 3y agoShould've bought startrek.social
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- johnchristopher 3y ago> startrek.website is a partnership between /r/StarTrek and /r/DaystromInstitute from Reddit, they’ve both locked their subs over there for good. Follow @startrek "For good", interesting. I wonder how things will be in three months for reddit communities. I wonder what parallels can be drawn between this reddit situation, twitter/mastodon and whatsapp/signal.
- johnchristopher 3y ago> The new home of r/StarTrek, r/DaystromInstitute and sigh ...r/Risa Hey, hey, hey :).
- luuurker 3y agoNot sure if it's a good idea to use that domain (startrek.website). It might attract some lawyers if it gets too popular.
- liotier 3y agoDoes something resembling the "Old Reddit" look & feel exist among the Reddit clones ?
- gmuslera 3y agoTo boldly go where no Reddit community has gone before.
- tredre3 3y agoThe contrast on this website is rather bad. For example the pinned discussions are dark blue against a dark grey background. Prev (disabled button) and Next (normal button) use almost the same shade of grey. Hot|Top|New|Old all look like disabled buttons (very faint) but they are clickable. There doesn't seem to be a way to switch to a light theme? Are there other online viewers for lemmy? (Of course this could be the result of me being middle-aged or me using a mid-range monitor rather than high-end OLED, so take of that what you will)
- ttt3ts 3y agoJoin a different instance with a different color scheme?