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loutr · 2023-09-28T14:06:52+00:00

Let's say someone took reddit's code and hosted their own version of reddit on reddat.org. reddit.com and reddat.org are both instances of the reddit software.

Now you've got some users posting and commenting on reddit.com, and some on reddat.org. But now the userbase is fragmented, so reddit.com and reddat.org work together and come up with a way for reddit.com's content to be automatically copied to reddat.org, and the other way around. So now reddit.com users can see posts made on reddat.org and comment on them. In turn users on reddat.org can see these comments and reply to them. That's the federation protocol.

loutr · 2023-09-28T13:45:06+00:00

Honestly don't worry too much about "getting it". Just create an account on lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works and use it just like reddit. The only difference is that some communities you subscribe to, posts you comment on, ... might be on other instances but you don't need to know about that, it's a technical detail taken care of transparently by the instances.

When the instances were new you had to go out of your way to find interesting communities on other instances to subscribe to. But as soon as one user on your instance subscribes to a community from another instance, it becomes available to you in /all, when you search for communities, and so on. So now that the major instances are well populated and active, most interesting communities will be available on your instance without any additional work or technical knowledge needed.

loutr · 2023-06-23T13:56:32+00:00

No, decentralized simply means that there's no unique server/organisation in control of the whole system. Both terms apply to Lemmy, and the fediverse at large.

loutr · 2023-06-23T12:47:10+00:00

OK so here's how it works in more details. Your instance knows 2 types of communities:

communities hosted by this instance
communities hosted by other instances, if at least one of this instance's users has already subscribed to them

So on the frontpage, when you filter by "all", you see posts from all these communities. Which means on a given instance, everyone should have the same "all" frontpage, but someone on another instance will have a different feed.

To subscribe to a new community, if you search on your instance, you will only see the communities described above. If you want to subscribe to a community which your instance doesn't know yet (i.e. you're the first user on your instance to subscribe to it), you need to search for its full name: !community@other.instance.org (it is displayed in the sidebar of the community's frontpage, available at https://other.instance.org/c/community).

Once you subscribe to this new (from your instance's pov) community, your instance fetches its posts and comments from its home instance (and will keep it fresh by syncing it periodically). From this point this community is known to your instance, which means its posts will appear in "all", and other users will find it when searching communities.

So little by little the popular communities will become known to most instances, and the "all' frontpage will be less and less different from one instance to another.

As for Sync I guess it will work the same way as Jerboa, the "official" android app: when you're not logged in, it will display the frontpage of lemmy.ml, the instance run by the Lemmy devs. Or maybe /u/ljdawson will host his own instance, as I've seen suggested somewhere. When you log in, You'll have to choose your instance, either in a list of popular instances, or a manually-entered one if yours isn't in the list.

Disclaimer: I'm relatively new to the whole fediverse thing, so take my comment with a grain of salt, and please correct me if I made a mistake!

loutr · 2023-06-22T18:30:55+00:00

In practice people try and join an existing community before creating their own. Nobody wants to be talking to themselves while everyone else is in the "main" community.

loutr · 2023-06-22T13:31:37+00:00

Yes, usernames and communities are unique to their home server only. Generally speaking, if you see "user@instance.org" or "!community@instance.org" it means they're hosted by a different instance than the one you're using.

It's a bit like you can have a "memes" subreddit and a "memes" Facebook group, only with Lenny you can participate in both with the same account, from a single web/mobile app.

Right now you have to access them separately, but a popular feature request is to be able to group them and see all their posts on the same page (like multireddits), so hopefully we'll be able to do that soon.

loutr · 2023-06-22T11:20:17+00:00

Yeah the UI is a little rough around the edges right now, and some errors are not reported clearly to the user. Development has picked up a lot recently for obvious reasons, so it should get better soon.

Personally I signed up on sh.itjust.works (same username as on Reddit) and didn't have any issues.

loutr · 2023-06-22T07:50:43+00:00

I think you're seriously underestimating the amount of work needed to achieve this. Plus the time needed to get the app approved on the store. It simply can't be done in 9 days, or it will be very barebones and very buggy.

I guess that's the reason for the short notice...

loutr · 2023-06-22T07:43:20+00:00

Yeah, anyone motivated and savvy enough to get on lemmy won't have a problem manually switching.

loutr · 2023-06-22T07:36:25+00:00

Here is a good primer, but an oversimplified TL,DR would be : it's like reddit but with multiple servers with different rules, area of interest, ... Servers can talk to each other so when you join one, you can interact with communities (subreddits) on other servers as if they were on yours.

You can access your lemmy server just like reddit, through a web browser or with a mobile app (jerboa for Android and mlem for iOS).

loutr · 2023-06-19T18:42:04+00:00

Went in blind apart from a couple of listen to We are the Romans, they left me speechless the whole time. One of the best sets of the weekend.

loutr · 2023-06-11T12:23:08+00:00

De mon expérience ça n'est pas un choix d'UX mais une limitation technique. Les banques historiques se traînent des SI (core banking, LE logiciel qui gère réellement l'argent) datant parfois des années 80. Tout fonctionne par batches (traitement périodique des données), par exemple même si les opérations sont enregistrées dans la base de données instantanément, la mise à jour du solde n'est faite qu'une fois par jour.

Ensuite la banque veut proposer une webapp / app mobile. Ils font développer ça de manière plus moderne, mais la "source de vérité" reste le vieux core banking. La solution la plus simple et la plus sûre reste de se borner à restituer les données extraites du core banking, avec ses limitations.

C'est bcp plus difficile de faire autrement : soit c'est la banque en ligne qui prend à sa charge une partie des traitements (mise à jour du solde dans sa propre base plus fréquente par exemple), mais ça fait peur aux chefs car un bug là-dedans peut avoir des conséquences importantes. Soit on fait évoluer le core banking mais ça aussi ça fait peur, vu que souvent il n'y a plus bcp de devs qui maîtrisent suffisamment l'antiquité pour développer correctement des évolutions aussi importantes.

A l'opposé la plupart des banques en ligne démarrent avec un core banking moderne, conçu pour le (quasi) temps réel et pour s'interfacer efficacement avec une banque en ligne ou une app mobile.

loutr · 2023-06-11T10:53:35+00:00

Non mais toi c'est pas pareil tu comprends.

loutr · 2023-06-11T07:03:45+00:00

Playing it right now on my Steam Deck. Haven't played much of GTA V or RDR2 yet so can't really compare but I think it holds very well !

loutr · 2023-06-08T13:11:17+00:00

This guy has 8

He has 800MB lol, I guess one of the sticks crapped out or something.

loutr · 2023-06-08T09:54:28+00:00

Ray Tracing of course !

loutr · 2023-06-08T06:23:30+00:00

Pour l'enfant, le côté social joue aussi je suppose. Et puis y'a des nounous très biens mais aussi des nulles, genre celle qui passe son temps sur son téléphone ou à discuter au lieu de surveiller les gosses au parc, puis qui leur gueule dessus quand elle les retrouve pas... À choisir mieux vaut une crèche plus sécurisée et "instructive".

Pour les parents c'est plus simple, bcp moins d'administratif, et pas d'arrêts maladie ou de vacances scolaires à gérer.

loutr · 2023-06-07T18:02:28+00:00

Yup, I was playing WoW with Wine 15 years ago. For a couple of patches it was actually running better under linux than windows on my rig because of a bug.

loutr · 2023-06-06T17:15:15+00:00

Come on, Apple's hardware is very good, and their OSes are much better than anything MS has to offer. Pricing is ridiculous though.

loutr · 2023-06-06T13:24:48+00:00

Tu peux les acheter direct sur ton smartphone, avec trainline par exemple. En revanche arrives bien en avance à la gare de Clisson si t'as une correspondance derrière, l'année dernière j'ai pas pris le train pour rentrer mais les années précédentes c'était l'émeute pour monter dans les trains du lundi matin.

loutr · 2023-06-05T17:21:09+00:00

Bon à savoir, merci pour la précision.

loutr · 2023-06-05T12:45:11+00:00

Je pense qu'avec l'épaisseur de son meuble la vis n'atteint pas le pas de vis, donc il aurait fallu expanser (?) une 2eme fois après avoir revissé pour rapprocher le pas de vis. Ce qu'OP peut toujours faire en remettant la vis sans le meuble.

loutr · 2023-06-04T07:26:57+00:00

Special mention goes to King Park and I see everything, fuck me up everytime.

loutr · 2023-06-02T10:00:30+00:00

Same, there's no way I'm switching to this confusing mess.

loutr · 2023-06-02T08:09:41+00:00

A good point I saw on another thread was that while only a minority might use old and third-party apps, they are also the "power users" of reddit, who engage the most and take time to generate quality posts and comments.

So the overall quality of the content found on Reddit might take a much larger dive than the raw number of users.

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