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on MBTI Notes · c/mbti · 4 pts · 3y

It’s my attempt to seed this community with high quality material so that it doesn’t end up in the same sorry state as r/mbti :)

I'm very curious: does single Lemmy instance have the ability to horizontally scale to multiple machines? You can only get so big of a machine. You did mention a second container, so that would suggest that the Lemmy software is able to do so, but I'm curious if I'm reading that right.

For me, that’s a low bar! HackerNews just has this vibe that I can’t get on with. It seems like everyone there actually just hates technology and there’s a lot of negativity and cynicism. Something like that, at least. I can’t put my finger on it exactly, but I get a mild sense of dread just opening it up, let alone reading the comments. It’s not a feeling I used to get when reading other tech-oriented discussion boards like, say, /r/rust, where you just get to see a bunch of cool stuff other people have built or people helping each other out.

Passing around references works, but then you have to deal with ownership issues. Often the motivation for cloning a Vec or String is just to avoid dealing with lifetimes and to get ownership, but the mutability isn’t actually required. In these situations I think the video’s recommendation to use an Arc is actually a good one.

It could be a suck-up investment play. The problem with hoping a narc like Elon invests in you is that the second you’re not useful to them, they will dispense with you like a dirty cumsock. See: all the people who tried to suck up to Donald Trump and ended up with damaged reputations.

Reddit seems to be in a bad way financially. Their investors have written them down. They’re still making losses. They’re laying people off. They’re implementing these absurd API changes. They need to make a lot of changes to monetize something that’s hard to monetize, and I think that this is a sign of much worse things to come for them and their users. Despite their success at online relevancy, they’re actually a bad business and I wouldn’t be surprised if at some point they got bought out by private equity and picked apart.

The sad part is that it didn’t need to be this way. I think in trying to get hyper-growth and relevancy among normies, they ended up investing too much into areas that would help them do that. If they had stayed content to remind a simple forum, I think they could have been a sustainable business. But the VCs demand to have a unicorn, I guess.

Even if he actually thought that, why the fuck would you say that right now when a large amount of your community is revolting against you? Comments like these are only further destabilizing a bad situation. If I was on the board, and even if I fully supported the changes, I would have him removed for adding more fuel to the fire.