I use eternity for Lemmy, no matter how trash my internet is, everything loads so fast!
Probably less javascript. In theory, javascript makes sites faster because it diverts processing to the user’s browser. In reality, developers use it to load all sorts of frameworks, third party whatevers, and other crap that slows things down. In other words, the same reason old websites load fast.
it drinks more coffee
Thank you all for the informative comments!
looks under desk and pats the Dell Optiplex server
This gave me a chuckle. Lol
More athletic hamsters and we keep the wheel well lubricated.
Probably all the ad tracking shit running in the background.
Not to mention the IPO has them cutting costs everywhere to make them look profitable.
I also wouldn’t put it past them to intentionally slow down people who aren’t logged in.
I use infinity for reddit, not sure if ad tracking is there but images take forever to load
I’m pretty sure Reddit used to be profitable. There used to be a bar on the right-hand side that showed how far each day’s Reddit Gold purchases had gone towards covering the day’s server costs. When I first started using Reddit, it’d typically be about a third of the way full when it reset, but a few years after the at, it was filling up after about eight hours, suggesting they were covering the server costs three times over, which should have left plenty of money for staffing costs as they didn’t have many staff back then. Eventually, they got rid of the bar. Later, they did things that would have increased costs, like hiring people to make New Reddit and the Reddit App, and hosting images and videos themselves instead of leaving it to imgur, and I guess these were enough to make them no longer profitable and force them to aim for faster growth.
There was corpo phrasing in that…
It was amount of gold equal to server time assuming all the gold was bought.
But mods would get a shit ton to give out. And towards the end when you got gold you got “coins” as well that could be used to give gold.
Like, say I want to make “Fun Time bucks” a thing. To drive adoption I’m going to give out free fun time bucks to everyone, they spend because it’s free, and people start seeing it as valid.
Reddit was pumping gold so people saw it and hopefully they bought it because they assumed everyone else was buying it. But most of it was “free” gold.
There used to be a bar on the right-hand side that showed how far each day’s Reddit Gold purchases had gone towards covering the day’s server costs.
There were always people costs too, and plenty of others. Breaking even on infrastructure doesn’t stop the bleed of the venture capital. And investors do expect a return.
Much smaller user base, distributed servers, modern code (versus reddit’s ancient code), less enshittification in the code (reddit’s various manipulative algorithms).
Eh, the code is very inefficient.
Yeah… Lemmy’s code and the way it implements activity pub is not the greatest… A lack of batch operations means that every single federated like is an HTTP request of its own.
My favourite is having to send the activities sequentially, meaning you can very easily block the queue when a request fails.
And that’s just the network architecture. Database architecture is another kind of hell. Like a simple delete operation taking multiple minutes because there’s a multitude of triggers, some of which take very long. That in itself is not bad, but the fact that the api waits for all the operations to succeed or fail (or the more usual case, timeout) is bonkers. Either fix the db or do it in the background.
I was excited for Lemmy a year and a half ago, which quickly passed. Thinking of migrating my server to some alternative. If Sublinks launches eventually, I’m migrating in an instance, currently thinking of writing an api compatibility layer between Lemmy and Piefed to migrate without anyone noticing.
It’s probably down to how much random crap is being loaded along with what you’re trying to see. The modern web means page load takes forever, in part because of all the random things your browser also has to pull down. Some of this content need to be loaded before you can render much of anything and some of that will result in calls to yet more random servers. Look at the network tab in your browser’s dev tools to see what I’m talking about. Without an ad blocker you’re probably looking at calls to 10-20 servers just to load a webpage.
The old reddit API was actually pretty snappy, in part because it didn’t need a lot of this overhead. I suspect the same is true for Lemmy - no extra fluff.
And distributed over more than a thousand nerd servers :-)
old.reddit.com has always loaded quickly, except their self hosted photos and videos, which is a (relatively) new thing and has never loaded fast.
I think this is instance dependent. Midwest.social is super slow for me frequently and times out a lot depending on the time of day.
It is certainly instance dependent, as they would all be running in different servers.
It’s definitely instance dependent. I run the servers for my instance at the closest Hetzner data center to myself (west coast USA) for latency reduction and over-size/engineer it for better perf.
My instance is open for registration too, if anybody reading here would find that useful.
… And also Eternity is uber cool!
Eternity was already based when it was a Reddit app. Hopefully it will see mbin support soon™.
There used to be reddit.com/.compact . It was lightning quick to load and browse even on load end devices because its wasn’t graphics/javascript heavy. When reddit removed the “.compact” view it was the first thing that made me look for an alternative. The API changes was another.
Unrelated but does Eternity correctly support Links now? (to comments / threads)
This drove me to Jerboa, but I prefer Eternity’s UI so I’d be pleased to go back if that’s fixed.
The app is still broken. I still have it installed and it has some really annoying quirks. I use voyager and it’s solid.
I tried Voyager but status bar is white in dark mode, I can’t see anything
