They've already made the "new" reddit web view unusable for any sub marked NSFW. I feel sorry for the web devs at Reddit that spent all this time making a responsive site that works on mobile, then to be forced to artificially block access to push app usage.
nick
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You're probably correct :(
The software is a little clunky but this is everything I dreamed of when I got half way through making a peer-to-peer reddit clone in 2015 and gave up lol
Wouldn't it be better if they federated so it doesn't become a walled garden in there? It means we can stay on our own instances but aren't cut off from their large userbase.
I think fighting this will be a mistake. Instances ran by the likes of Tumblr and Meta can only bring more people into the fediverse, and when they're in it will be easier for them to move around.
The great thing about AcitivityPub is it lets the people who want to be in larger more centralised servers connect to those who don't fairly seamlessly.
Might be taking some time to backfill, I can pull down posts when I explicitly go to the community (see edit 2), but no comments are showing up as of now https://campfyre.nickwebster.dev/post/21
I made a kubernetes deployment for my lemmy service + use object storage for image hosting. Everything lemmy-side looks like it should scale fine. I'm not doing open registrations though, so it won't impact me. The key bottleneck in my case is the database, but if need be a larger node can be provisioned to let the DB expand a bit.
I think for larger instances some form of server-abstraction will be useful for scaling (i.e. k8s, cloud run, EKS, etc.)