You really have blind faith that federation even works, when I've been validating data and highlighting that delivery is not reliable when it has so much overhead it crashes servers.
This has nothing to do with rockstar culture
Then I'm confused, because that was my own idea.
the fact that you’re spending 10x the amount of typing complaining about an issue
I'm no longer complaining, you convinced me, I love them like Rock Stars now and I have formally apologized and explained how wrong I was in my thinking because of my past memories of running mission-critical PostgreSQL servers. Are we clear now? It's all about Style and Fashion, and I got way too worked up about crashes.
So either you don’t want it fixed because you prefer to complain and die on your sword, or you don’t know how to fix it.
I don't get this. Why are you making it about me? Do you think I am the one who opened GitHub issue 2910? Is that your accusation? That I created a fake account and opened issue 2910? I was not worried about me. Even in June I was not worried about me personally. I was worried about the person who opened the issue, is that understandable to you?
I was worried about Reddit users encountering server crashes. This isn't about one person, me. This is about thousands of people and a June 30 deadline.
But 12 hours ago, I have turned direction. I did not realize just the kind of culture and "Rock Star" attitude that was going. I was focused on Reddit June 30, and I didn't see that the social conventions were far more important than server crashes. It was a mistake for me to be worried so much about data and crashes when that isn't the culture here. I am finding everything thinks it is "cool" and "fine" that it took over a month for 2910 to be resolved. I never expected that, it was me who was socially out of touch.
I really got lost socially and regret my attitude problem. I should have learned back in March with Elon Musk running Twitter now, that the rules for social media cultures are vastly different than my measures for what would consider to be "cool" regarding a server crash issue. Not one person has said that 2910 should have been addressed within 3 or 4 days of being created. So I know now that it is me who has to change.
If there is actually an issue I expect someone else who is actually levelheaded and reasonable will identify it and submit a PR.
Do you think the issue isn't fixed or something? This is a postmortem discussion. You seem confused. Or do you think some other confusion, like I'ts about me personally in Issue 2910?
If the problem is easy to solve, then go solve it, open a PR, and come back here once you’ve done so.
Why... That isn't going to get in installed on the servers they are running. I failed to see that this is a "Rock Star" culture, and the audience does not interpret months of Issue 2910 getting no attention as a problem. There are social forces that are non-technical, and I wildly misinterpreted the situation. You personally have really made the case to me just how wrong I am. Again, I am sorry I made such a fuss and misunderstood.
Be like Phiresky, actually put your code where your mouth is.
Why... That isn't going to get in installed on the servers they are running. I know the change was not difficult for anyone to do. I failed to see that this is a "Rock Star" culture. Look at how you know them by names, and how much you respect that. I just didn't appreciate the 4 years of style and fashion so fully.
Lastly, I don’t know if you were aware of this, but the Lemmy devs don’t owe you anything.
Such an interesting discussion. Do you believe Reddit owes you something? Do you believe Linux owes you something? Such a interesting topic.
Just because you can’t think of another reason why they didn’t listen to you
I didn't say anything, I was entirely silent, when the June 4 2023 issue 2910 was opened. So I don't grasp why you think this is all about me. I never thought this was about me. The June 30 Reddit API deadline was what I thought this was all about when I was witnessing this.
I didn't do pull request and add a new developer in the mix in June because it was such an easy problem to fix. It was when on June 13 that they still had not responded to the June 4 issue 2910 and did hardware upgrades on lemmy.ml that I started to interpret the situation differently. Instead of responding to Issue 2910 on Github, that same day on June 13 I started organizing Lemmy-specific PostgreSQL instructions on !lemmyperformance@lemmy.ml because servers were crashing even after the hardware upgrades.
I now realize, today, that my whole approach to this comes from experience running PostgreSQL in "mission critical" applications. What I have done with DB/2 and PostgreSQL wasn't driven by social loyalty and "Taking on the Big Guys of Reddit and Twitter" that happens here. I've been all wrong to think that the developers don't know exactly what they are doing. It's like criticizing Hollywood for spending 3 million dollars on sets and clothes for 90 seconds of a film. I should have realized I was not understanding that social media sites run by social behavior models, not by technology concerns.
Elon Musk has done wild things since he took over Twitter and I didn't take it so personal. I guess it was my memories and personal experience with PostgreSQL that haunted me too much. I was wrong. And i see how the lemmy community is loyal, so I can see just how wrong I am about the choices being made.
the feature you suggest be ripped out is one that many people like.
ok, I've come to terms. I posed an apology just now on github, and I apologize to you.
I see now that people value the social outcomes of how they run the project far more than I realized.
Who stole your candy
Cambridge Analytica in 2014 seems to have turned much of the online population attitude to that of dismissing human beings in favor of memes and disinformation. and the player who seeded anti-vaccination topics since 2013 on the Internet, that was documented in 2018 by John Hopkins university. my "candy" would have been teachers like Carl Sagan having enough students in the population that junk information wasn't saturation... but since 2014 junk just seems to keep growing and expanding.
I think Lemmy project creators work 9 to 5, for 4 years, and want to collect money. They do not use Lemmy. That's my point. They prefer Matrix. That's my point. They don't use Lemmy or care that it crashes all the time, they keep adding new features and the server crashing they consider acceptable.
They even brag and boast on Github that lemmy is "high performance", and that it has "full delete" when these are not factually true and it is low-performance code and does not delete, it crashes on delete. Is it their self-deception or the audience they are deceiving, or both?
I do not think more than 0.5% of humanity demonstrates self-awareness or an ability to openly discuss media-consumption bias.
I think people fall in love with dead persons so easily that they will sell out all of living/alive humanity for a storybook.
“Finnegans Wake is the greatest guidebook to media study ever fashioned by man.” - Marshall McLuhan, Newsweek Magazine, page 56, February 28, 1966.
I have never done LSD or any other illegal drugs, but I have read FInnegans Wake: www.LazyWake.com
If anyone finds where this is in the code, please share. I'm sure some non-Lemmy code will allow longer, so I'm guessing it is only a input restriction... and someone could always hack their lemmy to allow longer. I don't suspect it is the database that has any limit.
I don't think people know (how end-users will cope with the distributed choices of Lemmy). Reddit 2023 is nothing at all like Lemmy. One could be considered a household name for regular users of the Internet, the other a return to something more like FidoNet.
I come from the BBS days of the early 1980's and even social media radio before that. I come from IRL user group meetings, held at public library and after-hours company meeting rooms. It has always bothered me that current-day subreddits have mostly no identity to the moderators and that moderation is often behind the scenes.
I guess it's like "corporate experience" that people expect this day in society... that you can walk into a generic franchise chain bar and grill and not really care who the owner/operator and bouncers are of your hangout. Anyone can start a topic/ conversation and there is just some anonymous janitorial crew who is supposed to clean up the overflowing mess if (non-venue) spam or hate messages enter into the space.
The mechanisms of who pays for the venue and the moderators also was a topic most people never bothered to think about. Like it was some taxpayer-funded city park and perhaps the admin police might spot check if anyone was causing a tragedy in that there commons. But reality is that it was a profit-seeking venue charging a cover charge in the form of selling copies of your contribution and changing the tone of your meeting space by controlling the jukebox that visitors hear in terms of advertising messages inserted into the conversation space.
Lemmy seems small, owner/operator focused, and you get a sense that each instance is like some small bar and grill where you can come and meet some strangers or friends to discuss some topics under house rules. Your tips help pay for the hosting and the jukebox isn't piped in memes from advertisers.
I remember when Reddit had known owners with known ideals, but that was very long ago. I've found making it big (with the associated wealth) changes people. One owner even committed suicide over his society ideals about sharing information. Ultimately I feel like a lack of topic participation by the moderators and owners alike made people thoughtless as to their own role in building a human community and people often felt like they were fighting machines and code.
sorry if this meandered off topic, but lately I've had some long-time friends ask me 'what is Reddit" since it is in the news lately, and I find it hard to explain what Reddit used to be (before new Reddit and the addition of images/video) vs. the corporate-like entity we know today that our contributions and participation helped empower over the past 17 years. I've used it mostly daily for all that time, and I have been unhappy with society's dehumanizing direction for too many years.
/ramble from a disturbed mind.
I don't follow your comment, are you suggesting I said something negative about open source project communities? I was talking about the Lemmy social media communities who actually comment and fund the 64-core server upgrades without asking why the site crashes with only 57K users.... the people who comment and post on Lemmy.... not the "open source" programmer community, but the social media community of Lemmy.