PrincipleOfCharity

Interesting thought that is definitely worth considering. I used the term "Reddit refugee" in reference to my status. I am a little hesitant to shrink language by turning it into a competition or making words political. Refugee legitimately has multiple definitions, and the appropriate course of action would be to qualify the term; political refugee or Reddit refugee.

This sort of concept leads to all sorts of other similar issues. If I am having difficulty making it through a hike and I comment that I need to just "soldier on", does that make light of the sacrifices of real soldiers who are dying all over the world? Should most people be disallowed from saying that they are starving because there are people in the world who are actually starving and not just hungry? Is it insensitive to say that I'm struggling to make it through the day at work when others, somewhere, are struggling to even stay alive?

For what it is worth, I'm okay with "refugee" by itself implying "political refugee", and requiring other forms to be qualified.

I’m not super concerned. It’s been a little over a week since stuff hit the fan. Contributors need time to learn the code base. People are starting to help with the easy stuff, but the two main devs still need to check everything because they are the only ones that can understand how those changes affect long term visions. Also, the urgent fixes are all somewhat-breaking changes which is why it’s looking like the next release is going to be 0.18 instead of 0.17.5. It makes sense to get as many urgent breaking changes in as they can before publishing, and it’s only been 8 days since the last release to identify, code, and test.

For personal projects this is fine, but I’m curious why you feel the need to have every crate be the newest? Once you have it compiling, why upgrade dependencies at all unless you have to? Compiling a new binary is way more work than just running the one that is already compiled. You talk about minimizing build times with this method, but it isn’t clear why recompiling at all with newer dependencies is beneficial.

Theoretically, every update to a crate is better than the last, but sometimes it’s just adding non-breaking features that you weren’t using anyway. You could just check crate updates every once in a while looking for performance gains or features you would like to make use of.

It sounds like you are referring the federation. When something is posted to one server, that server has to then propagate it to the other servers. That process is not instant; especially in large servers. In fact, right now with the Lemmy software it is a bit of a bottleneck that will be worked on soon. issue/3230

Another possible reason for this is caching. Browsers and servers cache pages to a lot to reduce load and make things go faster. That means that I sometimes you can see an old version of a page for a bit until it refreshes. Set correctly, a cache shouldn’t get too stale, and using the browser refresh button could fix it.

Not sure if this is the same problem, but it has been noticed that passing messages between federated instances has been hampered by the way the "worker threads" are currently been done. The big instances are essentially getting overloaded with outbound federation work. Solutions for that are in the works. issue/3230

Might be the only video game cover he gets on at this rate.

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It is not super clear whether Christian would have sold Apollo to Reddit. I know he mentioned them buying it from him for $10 million, but he has also said that he wouldn't sell Apollo to someone who was just going to mess it up because he cares about it. Reddit would have definitely made it a shell of what it currently is.

He was pretty much asked this question in a recent interview.

NP: If they’d offered to buy the app from you, would you have sold it to them?

I guess it depends on the stage. I mean, I’m just some guy, so if the number was high enough, sure. Absolutely. At the stage where it was clear that they weren’t interested in having third-party apps around anymore, just because of the pricing and some of the API changes around explicit content or whatnot, if that was the point where they said like, “That being said, we would like to maybe work with your user base or take your user base and figure out a way to make them happy in the context of the official app and work with you and your app through an acquisition,” I honestly would have listened to that.

Prior to that, it would have had to have been a pretty good number, just because I love building Apollo and being so in touch with so many people through the community. It would have to be a big number, losing such a big part of your life and what you do every day. There’s an emotional penalty to losing that is hard to quantify with money, as superficial as that sounds.