freamon

lemmy.ml isn't currently letting people create communities on it, to encourage users to create communities on other instances and spread things out a bit.

There's nothing for lemmy.world because web crawlers like the one at lemmyverse.net (where the bot gets its data from) can't read it.

I think this is due to the 0.18.3 update, and how instances have/haven't implemented the changed to the API
This comment from [email protected] seemed relevant:

This is the same reason I had to turn off my search engines crawler.

There were changes made to the API to ignore any page > 99. So if you ask for page 100 or page 1_000_000_000 you get the first page again. This would cause my crawler to never end in fetching “new” posts.

lemm.ee on the other hand made a similar change but anything over 99 returns an empty response. lemm.ee also flat out ignores sort=Old, always returning an empty array.

Both of these servers did it for I assume the same reason. Using a high page number significantly increases the response time. It used to be (before they blocked pages over 99) that responses could take over 8-10 seconds! But asking for a low page number would return in 300ms or less. So because it’s a lot harder to optimize the existing queries, and maybe not possible, for now the problematic APIs were just disabled.

Finally rid of the yoke of lemmy.world, the real Lemmy emerges ... (from the left, of course)

Sync was released recently, and - like many apps before it - directed its users to lemmy.world as a 'default' instance, so they've had an influx of users to contend with.

Also, if you ask for the 'next page' of communities via their API, it'll just keep feeding you the same ones, over and over, even if you ask for Page 1 Billion, so there's probably some bots, crawlers, front-ends etc thrashing the hell out of it.

I don't know about DDoS attacks, but while they're happening, it seems to act a catch-all to blame any problems on.

With cards, it reminds me of when I had the Voyager PWA on my desktop. One difference (apart from the colour) is that Voyager has the title above the image, rather than below. As for which way around works best, it unfortunately depends on the post.

I moved from Voyager to Alexandrite because I didn't like all the blank space on either side of posts. I can see how this works much better for mobile though, so it makes sense if you're targeting those platforms next.

This might have been an improvement of what we actually got.

If I wanted to create a low-effort, dead community for a random decade, I'd do it myself thanks, O Mighty Comm Creator.

https://github.com/tgxn/lemmy-explorer/issues/139
Also noticed here: https://lemmy.world/post/2651283

He's had to disable crawls of lemmy.world due to problems with their API responses

1% of users participate a lot and account for most contributions: it can seem as if they don't have lives because they often post just minutes after whatever event they're commenting on occurs

(withdraws whatever comment I was about to make)

You can't just put a bang before the comment URL, they're not magic.

'2170468' only has meaning on lemmy.world, every other instance will know that comment by a different number.

You just post the link as a normal 'https' link, and it's up to users to generate a local version if they want to interact with it.

"an inventor of the internet" is an interesting phrase.

If everybody who develops on top of the original invention gets to be an inventor of it, the list starts to be become unwieldy.

The first computer mouse was apparently more of a block.
I imagine it got its name from the 'tail' part, and the fact that it now looks mouse-like is mostly a co-incidence of it now being more ergonomically shaped.