It really seems to be getting more divisive and less welcoming on Lemmy the longer I’m here

Never tolerate intolerance.
If you don’t like people making fun of a dictator on a massive killing/kidnapping spree, this place is most definitely not for you…

He’s saying the quiet part out loud…

Why is 110v better than 220v?

Why u’re caring?

An AI ought to know who Harry Potter is, even if the books themselves are not the source of data…

If you prompt “Write a book about a boy wizard” and you get Harry Potter, thats where this would be an issue imo.

Global warming?

Well, yes, but where I’m from the topic “Donald Trump” is not a political one, it’s more of a “will you look at that shit show”.

A lot has changed since 2016 and I will most definitely approach every subject in a neutral state, as I feel like more and more people are getting more stupid by the hour.

Not how I view the world, but how I view USA and “citizens of the free world”.

In 2016 my girlfriend and I visited New York - for me, first time visiting USA. I had a co-worker who lived in USA for most of her childhood, so I asked her if she had some advice for me to get along with people I met on my way.

“Never underestimate the stupidity of Americans”.

I thought that to be rude as I had “talked” with many Americans on Reddit and sure, there were idiots, but that didn’t define a person from USA for me.

We arrived in New York and took a cab to the hotel. The driver asked us “So, is Donald Trump making headlines in Europe?” (This was during the 2016 election).

I laughed and told him “Yeah, can you believe people will vote on such a moron”…

Oh no I didn’t… He was furious, as Donald Trump was the Saviour of USA and he was singlehandedly going to “clean up the swamp” or whatever his catchphrase was… and then he said one of the stupidest things I have ever heard.

“90% of Muslims are terrorists and if you don’t kill them, they will kill you”…

I know not all Americans are this dumb, but I learned my lesson… Never underestimate the stupidity of Americans.

That God was real and had existed for all eternity.

Be the change you wanna see!

I hear what you are saying, but I’m from Denmark… these types of law suggestions usually come when there’s a focus on something, not when there’s a fear of something.

The government proved during the Mohammad-drawings that they will not bend over when they are outnumbered, so I’m not too concerned that these new laws are based on fear, rather than common sense… if suddenly the Middle East should focus on circumcision of girls is not allowed in Denmark, I don’t think that would be something we suddenly would allow (and here’s to me hoping that we’ll soon save all the boy penises out there!)

Whaaaa… Did you not perform your daily Bible Burning today? You should get your citizenship removed immediately!

Danish chiming in, and while I can’t speak for all my countrymen we discussed the topic at work yesterday.

Everyone I talked to had the same mixed feelings.

No, we shouldn’t cater to the religious groups who wants to limit free speech because they get offended over someone burning their copy of a religious book.

No, anyone shouldn’t burn religious books in public to incite hate and publicly display their (stupid ass) racism.

A quote from a Danish rapper, made some years ago, is currently trending

If we want to show people of the Middle East how great “freedom of expression” is, maybe we shouldn’t use it to mock people who don’t have it.

So, conclusion is we are torn…
Common conclusion was that everyone should be allowed to burn anything that is legal to burn on their own property. When you take that action into the public, it’s okay that it’s regulated…

If it’s okay that that regulation only applies to religious books… don’t know.

There’s an imposter among us.

If you had any clue what I have been personally doing with lemmy for the past 90 days, you would laugh at yourself.

Hey, we are someone who notices, and do not laugh at all, but appreciate everything you do!

Hey, when life gives you lemons, buy more storage!

Already fixed, will be in next release

If a new user on my instance was able to subscribe to a comunity on another instance, and all the posts/comments/likes of that community was being fetched so it was browsable on my instance - I would see no issue.

But as of now, if a user wants to browse content from several communities on different instances - and discover new interesting comunities on different instances - while being a user on a instance filled with "like minded users, they would need a user on all instances which hosts communities of interest to 1) discover these communities 2) view the posts from these communities.

What you are describing are single entities of communities, which defeats the purpose of federation completely, in my opinion.

I understand the idea of the “fediverse”, but personally think that the “no backfill” is the biggest missing piece of the great puzzle.

If I, 2 years from now, wanted to create an instance on the ever-so-popular fediverse, why should I? I can’t attract any new users, as they’ll lack all of the historical posts that makes a community a community (the inside jokes, the posts we still remember, that sort of thing).

Where we are today, better load your instance up with content from the popular communities at the popular instances, to ensure you are able to attract new users in the future.

I get why that defeats some of the purpose of the fediverse, but as for “new instances” it is crucial to have content - or else you have no new users.

I’ve played around with the Lemmony script, and altered it to take only popular instances in account. Right now it only parameterize by active users pr community, but I’ve changed it to also look at users pr instance, so you can subscribe to e.g. top 10 communities of the top 50 instances, so you have the content on your instance for new users joining… But this is just me playing around (and causing the load on the popular instances) with the dream of some day being able to provide my users with the content they would also be able to view on the major instances.

Allright, so this is isn’t the parameter that’ll speed things up by itself.

I set it to 10 (a bit more cautious than you, but this is somewhat new ground for me) and didn’t record more req/s, but it feels like the instance is a bit slower in terms of loading times. After I have tucked the kids in tonight I’ll snoop around netdata (where I’m monitoring the servers) to see what (or if something) has changed.