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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Please allow me to be the first to sign up to your @blackjackandhookers.org instance

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

We could always go for blackjackandhookers.vip

Has a classy sorta ring to it

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

This sends me on a rabbithole to discover new top level domains (.org .com .world) are added in rounds. The last one was in 2012. The next is NEXT YEAR.

Would be amazing if we could get .lemmy but it would be hella expensive. $185k for application and 25k annually to keep it. Not sure if we can crowdsource such.

Blackjackandhookers.online and .community are still available though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Lets get .fediverse

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I always like the fact that the cTLD .uk exists and basically no one uses it. But I don't think anyone pays to keep that one around.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Maybe i am misunderstanding but that is the country code for the united kingdom and is one of the most popular in the world

As of April 2021, it is the fifth most popular top-level domain worldwide, with over 10 million registrations.

This does include .co.uk .org.uk but the reason those exist is because you could not claim a pure .uk cTDL before 2014 because and this is an important piece of information for anyone looking to get a domain name. Countries can set the rules for their domain themselves; There have been instances (fmhy.ml) of governments revoking a registered domain, in this case because they discussed piracy.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago

It would honestly be better if people could all move off .world anyway. Simply to spread things out a little bit, and there's absolutely no downside.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure .world being slow is a web frontend problem. It often takes forever to load in my browser, but the same content loads quickly in the Voyager Android app.

I should probably try the several alternative web UIs they have available to see if they're faster than the default one, but I can't be bothered to walk over to my desktop PC right now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The XHR requests are taking forever to load. This implies backend APIs are the culprit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

If it were backend, Voyager would be slow too because it's requesting the same data.

Maybe Voyager connects to the backend using something other than XmlHttpRequest.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@cm0002 @grue Maybe, but backend / database load is more likely, isn't it ?

You can look at your browser developer tools and see downloads sizes, durations, where CPU time is used on client side ;)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It can't be the backend because it's got to query the same data whether it's feeding the web UI or Voyager, so that wouldn't explain the vast loading time differences between them. If the backend were slow they would both be slow, but Voyager's load times are great.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 days ago

Eh, screw the whole thing.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago

I went and found Yiffit originally because the more knowledgeable Lemmy gurus pointed out that everyone using 1 instance would bog things down. Makes sense, you know? Harder to serve everyone, especially if this whole thing is just up because of hobbyists and volunteers and not big mega corps with limitless funding, through 1 channel. Where big sites like Reddit split across multiple servers behind the scenes, Lemmy just allows you to manually control what servers you're using via the instance you're on. I'm big on choice, so this is hella rad IMO.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

so have any of you played blackjack with hookers?? They can play, and no tells, you will lose your shirt there. Best to just stick to the casinos.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

If I don't take my shirt off when hanging out with hookers, I must be doing something wrong.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why do people tend to pile onto the same instance? Is there some benefit I’m missing?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Because of the fediverse partial mesh, leading to incomplete timeline view, or inconsistency depending the instance you’re on.

People tend to flock on primary, massive instances because they are well know of course, but also because this is where you have the most complete view, and from there your posts reaches many other instances.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ah, I didn’t know about the incomplete timeline / mesh propagation issue. Sounds like a notable incentive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Also different instances hide different communities and so they don't show up at all unless you are a direct subscriber.

I learned about this on my instance when some news communities were hidden, turns out my instance has quite a list of hidden communities, which isn't a bad thing, but it can contribute to the incomplete timeline issue and if you don't know about the hidden communities feature its very hard to diagnose why you're not seeing what you expect to see.

In my case I wasn't subscribed to some of the news communities because I would catch the top posts in /all, which keeps my subscribed feed focused on things I'm actively interested in. So hidden communities are a challenge when you use /all and /subbed in that way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Great tip! Might save someone some time troubleshooting that issue.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Yes. Decentralization has many benefits.