I use eternity for Lemmy, no matter how trash my internet is, everything loads so fast!
looks under desk and pats the Dell Optiplex server
This gave me a chuckle. Lol
Because Lemmy isn’t running a thousand tracking scripts, and they’re not intentionally making the mobile website barely functional to push you to an app where they can track even more.
I use infinity for reddit not the website and images take too long to load
It is plausible that they might slow down traffic coming in via those 3rd party apps. Certainly they know, for example, who uses Infinity vs the Reddit app. Obviously they want to control the client to force ads on users.
Probably less javascript. In theory, javascript makes sites faster because it diverts processing to the user’s browser. In reality, developers use it to load all sorts of frameworks, third party whatevers, and other crap that slows things down. In other words, the same reason old websites load fast.
Also the reddit app is absolute steaming garbage that tries to throw ads and videos at you constantly.
So much of our software is slowed down by what’s basically ad analytics, because we have to remember, the ads are the actual product here.
Reddit’s backend is absolute junk and not designed for efficiency from the ground up, they just keep throwing more servers in and solve the efficiency bottlenecks with a shitload of caching. A site whose meat and potatoes is text comments and links just shouldn’t be this crap at it.
Lemmy has the benefit of hindsight in design and the fact that each server is only really responsible for a subset of all Lemmy users.
Fewer people sucking up bandwidth on top of everything being split up across multiple servers to further lessen the load. Shoulda seen the first month or so after the APPocalypse when everyone and their mother was on Lemmy.World and it started to get hella bogged down until a few knowledgeable people pointed out that it would work better if everyone spread out to different instances.
Reddit is running on a potato.
Lemmy is running on several distributed potatoes, with a much smaller user load per tuber (and many orders of magnitude less bots).More athletic hamsters and we keep the wheel well lubricated.
ideologically motivated hamsters too. they fucking HATE spez.
It’s definitely instance dependent. I run the servers for my instance at the closest Hetzner data center to myself (west coast USA) for latency reduction and over-size/engineer it for better perf.
My instance is open for registration too, if anybody reading here would find that useful.
it drinks more coffee
No or way less obtrusive analytics.
no ads
Thank you all for the informative comments!
… And also Eternity is uber cool!
Eternity was already based when it was a Reddit app. Hopefully it will see mbin support soon™.
Unrelated but does Eternity correctly support Links now? (to comments / threads)
This drove me to Jerboa, but I prefer Eternity’s UI so I’d be pleased to go back if that’s fixed.
The app is still broken. I still have it installed and it has some really annoying quirks. I use voyager and it’s solid.
I tried Voyager but status bar is white in dark mode, I can’t see anything
Probably all the ad tracking shit running in the background.
Not to mention the IPO has them cutting costs everywhere to make them look profitable.
I also wouldn’t put it past them to intentionally slow down people who aren’t logged in.
Not to mention the IPO has them cutting costs everywhere to make them look profitable.
Can you elaborate on this? No doubt you are right, but specific examples of how cost cutting leads to (the false appearance of) profitability here would be helpful.
I use infinity for reddit, not sure if ad tracking is there but images take forever to load
I’m pretty sure Reddit used to be profitable. There used to be a bar on the right-hand side that showed how far each day’s Reddit Gold purchases had gone towards covering the day’s server costs. When I first started using Reddit, it’d typically be about a third of the way full when it reset, but a few years after the at, it was filling up after about eight hours, suggesting they were covering the server costs three times over, which should have left plenty of money for staffing costs as they didn’t have many staff back then. Eventually, they got rid of the bar. Later, they did things that would have increased costs, like hiring people to make New Reddit and the Reddit App, and hosting images and videos themselves instead of leaving it to imgur, and I guess these were enough to make them no longer profitable and force them to aim for faster growth.
There used to be a bar on the right-hand side that showed how far each day’s Reddit Gold purchases had gone towards covering the day’s server costs.
There were always people costs too, and plenty of others. Breaking even on infrastructure doesn’t stop the bleed of the venture capital. And investors do expect a return.
There was corpo phrasing in that…
It was amount of gold equal to server time assuming all the gold was bought.
But mods would get a shit ton to give out. And towards the end when you got gold you got “coins” as well that could be used to give gold.
Like, say I want to make “Fun Time bucks” a thing. To drive adoption I’m going to give out free fun time bucks to everyone, they spend because it’s free, and people start seeing it as valid.
Reddit was pumping gold so people saw it and hopefully they bought it because they assumed everyone else was buying it. But most of it was “free” gold.
I know for a fact they have wait() code in there. If you try to do anything on a thread the OP has blocked you, it takes 10s or so minimum.