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What‘s keeping us from promoting Lemmy on Reddit? (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Serious question, as I‘ve barely seen any mention of Lemmy on Reddit. None of the Mod posts regarding the Blackout mentioned Lemmy as far as I‘m aware. Would it be against the TOS to start a coordinated promotion?

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

I'm genuinely asking and don't mean this the way it sounds, but is this supposition or have you observed this yourself?

Everyone says their own instances aren't very resource intensive. Even the larger instances like lemmy.world don't seem to have huge specs.

Although there's a lot of subscriptions there doesn't seem to be an overwhelming amount of content being produced. The most active threads in /home have like 150 comments over 2 days? I don't have the data and this really is mere supposition but it just doesn't seem like that much load.

I did see they pushed a new version with some db optimisations so that's probably an indicator that you're right. Also things just feel unstable. Unusually long page load times or 500 errors just occasionally. Things definitely aren't great I'm just not certain that db linkages are the problem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m genuinely asking and don’t mean this the way it sounds, but is this supposition or have you observed this yourself?

Yes, and I've been building social media message systems since 1984, and I'm a published author on messaging systems. I described some of the data integrity and sever malfunctions on multiple systems that have small to large numbers of users, including my own system on Oracle Cloud that has only me as a developer/user. Example of how it is failing: https://lemmy.ml/comment/616698