Comment on 10 million posts milestone

• nao@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I wonder if that’s how it works. Looking at lemmy.world’s timeline, there are only 3 posts after this one that are below 10M, the last one being lemmy.world/post/9999924, and the next one lemmy.world/post/10000121.

  Are that many posts getting deleted, or are they somehow counted in a different way?

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  • A_A@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    We could simply ask the administrators, but, just for fun, we could program an algorithm such as the following :

    #1 get(the_latest_post, from_the_server)  
    #2 modify its address by adding a small fixed number 
    (manually adjust this small number to get one of the next posts before they can be deleted)  
    #3 get(this_next_post, from_the_server)
    

    Repeating these steps a few times and keeping statistics should allow to answer experimentally the question 😋

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• Fades@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  😱

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