ericjmorey

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Substack is newsletter focused, subscriptions are for individual substack writers' newsletters (you can't access all substack newsletters with a single subscription) and it has a recommendation feature that writers like because it can help them grow their subscribers and therefore grow their revenue.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

The problem I see with this idea is that I have no idea who most people are on "my" instance or what sort of content they're interested in. Even for a topic based instance like https://startrek.website/, outside of Star Trek, what are the chances that the interests of the members align?

The Lemmy developers were working on making user defined custom feeds. If that ever get implemented, I'd certainly give many ideas a try. But the Lemmy devs don't have any new feed options on their priority list and I doubt they will anytime soon.

The main dev (only dev?) of piefed seems much more likely to implement new ideas. For example, I had mentioned that only votes from a community's subscribers should be counted on posts to said community by default with the owner of the community given an option to count all votes. It was implemented within days.

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

LOL I should have reread that one.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

The data is not centralized, but everyone is using the same ~~aggravation~~ aggregation service (indexer) to access the data.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

No. All of your direct interactions are with your instance which federates with others.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Don't trust him based on his prior comments

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm not a fan of Kagi's founder, so I generally don't use it.

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

They dictate the operations of their suppliers. They force large expansions in capital investment and then decide that they don't want to renew the supplier relationship before the financing for the capital investments can be paid back. The only way suppliers can hope avoid this is to do what Walmart wants or constantly change their products in often superficial ways with branding agreements for IP of entertainment companies.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Amazon doesn’t handle shipping for a lot of the things they sell.

This is false. Very few products sold via Amazon are shipped independently from Amazon's logistics services.

 

cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/5391072

February 20, 2024 piefedadmin writes:

For a very small instance with only a couple of concurrent users a CDN might not make much difference. But if you take a look at your web server logs you’ll quickly notice that every post / like / vote triggers a storm of requests from other instances to yours, looking up lots of different things. It’s easy to imagine how quickly this would overwhelm an instance once it gets even a little busy.

One of the first web performance tools people reach for is to use a CDN, like Cloudflare. But how much difference will it make? In this video I show you my web server logs before and after and compare them.

Read How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance?

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