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We're now upgraded to 0.19.4 (self.main)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by Shadow to c/main

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Sorry for the brief bits of downtime here and there, I snuck in a quick upgrade of us to the latest lemmy 0.19.4 now that a few bugs have been patched out.

More details here! https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

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[–] Pxtl 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I can't help but notice the stark contrast between the rate of improvement to Lemmy vs the glacial pace of work done on Mastodon. Lemmy seems to embrace the "move fast and break things" ethos so much better than Mastodon which just crawls at implementing critical functionality. Which is funny, I follow Dessalines and Gargron on various platforms; Gargron seems like a much more sensible and reasonable and decent person so this is kinda disappointing.

This is a social network. It's recreation. I want you to move fast and break things. That's how Facebook won. You're not going to chase down the gazelle by walking.

[–] Album 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I agree with you but I think mastadon has bigger shoes to fill.

Businesses looked at Twitter as a reliable way to communicate with a broad audience. To the point that even police services thought it was good enough.

Mastadon, if it wants to be seen as a replacement needs to be high reliability.

I don't think Lemmy has that expectation. Like there is a user in these comments complaining that we didn't get notice of down time and I'm kinda wondering why he would want that let alone expect it. As you say it's recreation and so I don't need that high level of reliability.

[–] Vilian 3 points 10 months ago

exactly, also lemmy is is alpha, it can and is going to break things

[–] remotelove 6 points 10 months ago

You're not going to chase down the gazelle by walking.

(Sorry, I really like doing analogy analysis for the lulz.)

While that analogy is absolutely true, the amount of prep work (stalking) that goes into that final sprint is super important. Personally, I have no problems with "move fast; break things" unless there isn't an actual direction plotted first. Redundancy can even be implemented quickly, like when animals hunt it packs.

Failure is always an option, but always double the estimated time it takes to do a change of only to account for any unknowns.