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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I don’t think he’s saying they’re better, he’s saying it’s a preference thing and he prefers dogs because you can bond more with them.

Cats are way easier to take care of because they don’t need as much attention, which makes them better for a lot of people

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Lol I do the organic one all the time

 

There’s been a lot of talk about Meta’s new twitter clone called Threads because it will federate with other ActivityPub apps. I’ve seen several posts about them possibly using the app as a way to embrace, extend, and extinguish ActivityPub.

Another more immediate concern I have is that Meta will now be able to harvest data from users of other ActivityPub social networks like Lemmy and Mastodon. If Alice on Threads follows Bob on Mastodon for example, that means Bob’s mastodon instance will send information about all of Bob’s posts and everyone who interacts with them to Meta so that Alice can see it.

This is a concern specifically with Meta and other big tech companies running ActivityPub-enabled servers, because their primary motive is to harvest user data to use for advertising. The scariest part to me is that users on networks like Mastodon specifically migrated to Mastodon to get away from big tech, and Meta is still able to harvest their data with Threads.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That’s awesome! Thanks for hosting the server!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Reading more about how this works, sending out updates to each instance shouldn’t block the request from returning unless you have a config flag set to debug source.

It might be due to poorly optimized database queries. Check out this issue for more info. Sounds like there are problems with updating the rank of posts and probably comments too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is the slowdown that it the instance has to send out updates about the comment to every other instance before returning a successful response? If so, is anyone working on moving this to an async queue?

Sending out updates seems like something that’s fine being eventually consistent

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’m still kinda new to lemmy, but it sounds like every post on all your communities get sent to your instance? And maybe every comment?

That’s probably fine for now, but when happens when one of the communities you follow gets a ton of users? I imagine you’d end up having to scale your self-hosted server even though it’s just you consuming the content?

That doesn’t seem sustainable. Not knocking your idea to self-host, more concerned with the scalability of lemmy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why doesn’t it work between beehaw and lemmy world

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (15 children)

Why doesn’t it work between beehaw and lemmy world?