More RAM will always give you more longevity than more CPU. It is my policy to never buy the default configuration of any Mac, because they always have too little RAM.
Interesting - TIL. I wonder how Lemmy resolves the post #, since it is different between instances, and if it re-syncs comments when you do that. The post # thing is annoying, btw, because it makes it impossible to use relative links in posts/comments.
Kind of. My observed behavior of Lemmy, combined with comments from some developers (I haven't read the code):
Post goes up on community hosted on instance A, Message goes out to B and C: "here's a new post"
User x@B comments on post. Message goes from B to A saying "here's a new comment". A adds the comment, then sends a message to C "here's a new comment"
User y@C upvotes the comment. Message goes from C to A, then A sends a message to C.
Each of those messages are confirmed by the recipient, and there are timed retries. However, there have been plenty of cases where one of those messages get lost, and the communities get out of sync. As I understand it, the message traffic is only changes. They don't talk to each other to see what the current state of the content is. So whenever a sync break happens, it is permanent. New content/changes are fine, but stuff that gets lost in transit is lost for good.
I'm not sure ActivityPub is suitable for implementation of Lemmy/Kbin. ActivityPub seems to be a push (with retry) protocol, where if a message gets lost, the protocol doesn't seem to have a means to recover synchronization. Theoretically, instances could verify synchronization on a periodic basis, but that would be a massive increase in traffic.
Yes, the system is flawed. Yes, Republicans have embraced corruption, and their voters are accepting it due to the combination of the culture war and their perception that if someone doesn't display shame or remorse, they must have done nothing wrong. The Republicans in the US Senate declared in Trump's impeachment trial that the President is above the law as long as the Senate says so.
I don't know how our country will continue to function when the system of checks and balances has completely failed. We are on a very dark road right now.
I can't speak for the posting bots, but game day bots are pretty fundamental to sports communities - like, we have no shot at attracting any interest to our community if there aren't game day bots. We're literally running the same code as the reddit bots, just using the lemmy API. So that same traffic exists on Reddit, it is just that there is so much other traffic that they aren't as prominent.
Lemmy isn’t really targeting that space, though Reddit had a feature that they could add here that would work hit some of your feature points: there was a user page that was like a sub owned by each user. In the meantime you could create a community and make it mod only posts, and that would be pretty much the same thing. Just no hashtags.
Mastodon does (by default) have a post length limit of 500 characters, but in all other ways it sounds like a better fit for what you want.
Because the people who made money investing in the old way stop making money. That’s it. That’s the entire problem. The fossil fuels industry wants to keep making money, and the politicians who are bribed by them want to keep getting bribes. So they create a culture war so the facts don’t matter.
As a (hopefully good citizen) bot maintainer, the best advice I can give is to not follow active or new. Hot and top should not show bot posts unless they are being upvoted.
And you can write an app that will lie about the address of someone posting on ActivityPub. What's your point?
Mine is that you log in to your e-mail provider to access the content you are interested in. You don't go logging in to other e-mail providers because that is where the people creating the content are.
Choosing different communities with the stated purpose is all about context: the policies of the mods, the policies of the admins, and the reputation of the instance. Yes, it isn't a perfect analogy, but people need to shift how the think about the Lemmy/Kbin model from how they think about Reddit, and the example that seems to connect most easily with users is e-mail. Maybe a more subtle / apt analogy would be !cool_game@lemmy.world has an obviously different context and significantly different content than !cool_game@coolgamedev.com, but the same stated purpose (and community name).
The problem is that it isn't just the users who are confused about this: Lemmy admins seem to each have the goal of being "the place to be", and Kbin goes out of its way to devalue off-instance content. I personally think (primarily) user instances should be separate from (primarily) content instances, but that would take a coordinated effort by the admins. We are starting to see some grass roots efforts at making that happen, though the actions of the admins may prevent that from taking hold.
Well, I lived in Canada over 3 election cycles, and I saw the riding I lived in go to the conservatives with 40% of the vote in 2 of them. If the incumbant MP didn't go to jail, it probably would have been all 3.
Again, it isn't politics, it is simple math. In a plurality voting system, voting for a 3rd party (by definition, the candidate with the least support) always increases your chances of getting what you perceive as the worst outcome.
Don't fall for two party propaganda, vote for who you like
Just because it benefits the two parties to say this doesn’t mean it isn’t true. Voting for a third party always helps the remaining candidate the voter likes least by reducing the number of votes needed to win.
(unless there's someone on the same level of horrible as trump or desantis running, then probably just vote democrat to maximize your chances of not living in a fascist dystopia)
All evidence indicates that this premise will apply for the next few election cycles.
More RAM will always give you more longevity than more CPU. It is my policy to never buy the default configuration of any Mac, because they always have too little RAM.