mplewis

Paprika was a real trip.

I’m not denying that Mozilla has a history of poor governance. But they are the competitor to Google here. You need to consider these things in context to understand what anti-corporate means for the internet.

It absolutely matters. We need to consider that a right-wing actor is likely to exaggerate claims against an organization that is ostensibly socially-minded and represents anti-corporate interests, like Mozilla.

Full disk encryption is something you really want to have when your computer is lost or stolen.

Thank you!

Please feel free! Source is on GitHub, it uses Astro with the Starlight template.

Thanks, this is lovely!

Thanks, I’ll try it out!

That's a great way to attract stalkers.

Setting up a Lemmy server outside of the golden path of using the Ansible template is extremely difficult. I do this professionally and I couldn't get federation working properly when running Lemmy on my Kubernetes instance.

Figuring out why federation is failing is very, very hard.

Lemmy requires a lot of resources to run. You need a VPS that's at least $20/mo to work adequately under any load. Disk storage requirements for the DB are also rather high.

Lemmy 0.18.2 has some horrendous N+1 DB calls, e.g. one query per language (173 of them) when you create a new community. This hamstrings databases that are not colocated onto the same machine, e.g. neon.tech's hosted pg db. I expect this will improve with time as the codebase matures, yet...

Instance administration tools are sorely lacking.

"It's a good filter" is often just an excuse to not improve the UX. You hear this way more from open-source technically-inclined folks than you do from folks who care about building a product that people want to use.

And there's not a great way to suggest "you might like..." based on your current subscriptions.