Yeah that makes sense! I totally agree! Search is becoming pretty difficult these days!
jamesravey
API calls are almost always private between the caller and the endpoint (think telegram bots or mobile apps). There isn't really a technically feasible way for a crawler to somehow "infer" any kind of knowledge of how api calls are being used unless the result has some kind of publically visible side effect (E. G. The program using the api is generating a web page and uploading it somewhere crawlable). Google et Al go by how many links from other pages to the page of interest exist (inbound links) and multiply by a smattering of other things like quality of keywords, length of content etc.
That said, if you're implying that the api changes mean that:
- people are less likely to use reddit because they can't access it via RIF/Apollo
- less useful content is added to the site to be indexed,
- fewer inbound links will be generated that point to existing posts
- pages stagnate and drop in ranking
That is a plausible concern.
I think it's a fair concern. We've seen other parts of the fediverse successfully implement crowd sourced funding via patron and similar to keep mastodon servers running and I suspect if Lemmy remains "the place to be" admins will have reasonable success with a similar model. Lemmy is super efficient and can support 100s of users on a single box so I think if 1% of users paid like $5 a month you could probably still support 99% of users "for free".
I spent a lot of time setting up firefly-iii, a really neat and feature-rich finance manager. It's a really great piece of software by a very responsive and friendly dev but after about 6 weeks I still couldn't get used to it and ended up going back to paying for YNAB.
I swear by memos now though - highly recommended. It's like having a private twitter stream where you can send thoughts, notes and files that you want to store/refer back to.
Hey - I found the same thing WRT the docker files - the compose files from the official project are ever-so-subtly wrong.
Tagging a docker network as internal
blocks outside network comms afaik so the default compose file essentially puts the lemmy server inside its own little sandbox and prevents it from communciating with other servers.
The solution I found was to add lemmy to both the internal network and the external proxy network:
## this is what the networks part looks like by default
networks:
# communication to web and clients
lemmyexternalproxy:
# communication between lemmy services
lemmyinternal:
driver: bridge
internal: true
#... other stuff here
#lemmy service inside your services: section
lemmy:
image: dessalines/lemmy:0.17.3
hostname: lemmy
networks:
- lemmyinternal
- lemmyexternalproxy # this is the important addition
restart: always
environment:
- RUST_LOG="warn,lemmy_server=info,lemmy_api=info,lemmy_api_common=info,lemmy_api_crud=info,lemmy_apub=info,lemmy_db_schema=info,lemmy_db_views=info,l
emmy_db_views_actor=info,lemmy_db_views_moderator=info,lemmy_routes=info,lemmy_utils=info,lemmy_websocket=info"
volumes:
- ./lemmy.hjson:/config/config.hjson
depends_on:
- postgres
- pictrs
Another thing I noticed was that in the documentation they bind nginx on port 80 but the docker-compose provided binds to port 8536
which is the default port that lemmy seems to listen on. I bound 8536 to my host machine and use caddy as a reverse proxy (because it does letsencrypt for you which is nice).
(Writing to you now from my self-hosted instance which I set up with the above notes)
Wow the enshittification is at full throttle across silicon valley! Guess those investors gotta get those returns now that interest rates are spiking!