It is indeed a nice change
Comment on How much difference does a CDN make to a fediverse instance? - PieFed
freamon@endlesstalk.org 8 months agoFlippin’ 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.
Blaze@reddthat.com 8 months ago
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?