Oh I love the topics list. It already helped me discover a new community. I assume right now it’s curated by someone, would be cool if there was a way for communities to just apply tags to themselves. They could even be turned into hashtags, whenever someone posts to that community, as a kind of link to Mastodon.
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Blaze@reddthat.com 8 months ago
Thank you for sharing, interesting topic!
On a side-note, I just had a look at Piefed, I like their topics list: piefed.social/topics
MBM@lemmings.world 8 months ago
freamon@endlesstalk.org 8 months ago
Flippin’ eck. Seeing a familiar Lemmy post on there, clicking it and seeing the whole thing render instantly was a bit of a shock after getting used to Lemmy’s more pedestrian loading of stuff.
rglullis@communick.news 8 months ago
Using a CDN does not come without downsides, though. Cloudflare itself is becoming another “too big to fail” entity of a system that is not supposed to depend on the resilience/capacity/budget of any single actor.
Personally, I’d rather see a tiered architecture for data, where servers are only responsible for guaranteeing the data from actors on their own servers, but everything else stored in a distributed, append-only stream of data. This would make a lot cheaper to run individual instances and would allow clients to obtain the data from multiple sources.
poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 months ago
Some kind of shared object storage would help for images at least. But for that to work Lemmy would need a way to redirect clients directly to the storage bucket instead of proxying all the pict-rs traffic like it is currently implemented.
rglullis@communick.news 8 months ago
Like this?
Blaze@reddthat.com 8 months ago
It is indeed a nice change