Just to make sure this is clear, they didn’t rule for Apple or anything like that.

They simply said Apple doesn’t have to make changes while the SCOTUS appeal is ongoing.

You can’t scroll some of the ads, that’s one of the problems.

There are video ads that remain on the bottom of the page regardless of what you do. Same for image ads.

I’m trying to read an article and there is distracting ads all over the page.

Ads back in 90s were subtle, I have zero problems with textual google ads in the article but videos and images that is also slowing down my experience with its large downloads?

Sites are like loading 10m of content for a 2kb text article. Come on.

Funnily enough, this is the feature that can speed up the performance by doing less calls:

The federation code now includes a check for dead instances which is used when sending activities. This helps to reduce the amount of outgoing POST requests, and also reduce server load.

Is it me or is the 80% figure just insane?

Not really, you'd be surprised how often systems are bloated all because of a single option, character, etc. Most developers don't start optimizing until much later in the software's lifecycle. Often enough, it is easily overlooked. That's why code reviews are needed often with fresh pair of eyes.

Just to set the expectations, reducing database size or CPU usage does not necessarily mean it is faster but it does mean there's more free capacity on the servers to handle more users at the same performance.

More importantly; they may help reduce costs on the smaller indie instances that doesn't need to buy larger server instances.

Hopefully, we'll continue to see more of these optimizations.

Wow, thank you. I acutally was hoping you were going to add this becasue Alexandrite is the best desktop UI for Lemmy so far.

It also means Lemmy.world is turning into the best instance already because they're the most user-friendly and customizable one.

Great work!

FYI: I got rated limited on the first link but the second time worked right away. There might be some glitch there.

Love it.

Thanks for doing this!

Can the app retain the sort and read options per community and the home view?

For an example, my home view would be set to hot and unread but for Bean community, new and all posts is my preference since unread would hide the megatread post.

Also, I don’t think pinned should be removed when filtering unread posts.

Thanks!

Dunno what magic you’re using but this app feels really good.

Keep up the great work, this is a great start to potentially being the best Lemmy app.

Chromium is open source, you can inspect the source code and build it yourself. It's not spyware by default.

If you're going to try to get people to switch to Firefox, give them a legit reason.

Also, Firefox itself has telemetry that some would say is spyware. Not to mention, Mozilla has done some sketchy stuff themselves. Recent one is enforcing blocking of extensions on specific domains without user's intervention and picking out their own preferred extensions. (https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/7/1.html)

Remember that Musk didn't use his own money to buy Twitter, he had to borrow money with banks and other rich folks to buy the company.

In other words, Twitter or X, or whatever the name is actually due to start paying their debt interests and rumors are, they're close to a billion dollar each year for just interests alone.

Twitter has to make more than a billion dollar or so to even start paying salaries and then to make any profit.

Yep, it's on us to help move the content and people over to Lemmy. People and search engine will continue to default to Reddit. Eventually so much content will be on Lemmy/Kbin that reddit becomes a thing of the past, hopefully.

I’d suggest if you want stock and recent Gnome, stick with Fedora.

Pop is building their own DE that they will switch to sometime in 2023. Which also mean they will remain 22.04 till then.

I’m waiting for VanillaOS 2.0 release to see if it is any better.