Mostly receiving posts and sending out to federated servers.

I think that's more of a client issue than a server issue though.

Yeah, my instance doesn't have a lot of users, but it does have a lot of posts (few thousand per day). It might be all the updates it's sending out.

I guess I'll just have to give 0.18 a try then.

Depends on where it was posted. That has no place in [email protected], for example. Context is key.

Edit: I see now that it was posted to [email protected]. Which is indeed more relevant (haven't read the article). Still, every lemmy instance has it's own moderators and moderator styles. If you don't agree with the moderators of this community, then by all means subscribe to a different one, to get your varied mix of news.

All in all I don't see this as a problem with the Lemmy instance, just possibly with that specific community. It definitely isn't a Lemmy Support issue though.

The thing is (correct me if I'm wrong), if other instances federate with you, they'll be hosting a copy of the data you store. For images this is manageable (although animated images are basically video), but it will quickly run into the gigabytes range.

Yeah, that's been addressed.

HTTP API instead of Websocket

Until now Lemmy-UI used websocket for all API requests. This has many disadvantages, like making the code harder to maintain, and causing live updates to the site which many users dislike.

No, it's a one way sync.

There's probably 11 fascists on kbin as well. Should your instance by defederated too?

I wouldn't be surprised if they had, actually.

Still, a spam bot can just use the free license - they won't make nearly as much api requests as a proper app would.

The ones that make 60 posts per account per hour are easy to detect no matter how they post.

I stand corrected, thank you.

In a way this is the opposite of what you're asking, but this is kind of the reason I set up https://lemmit.online - To allow people to get quality content like [email protected] automatically onto Lemmy.

Anyone can request subs to be synced, and admittedly, not all of those requests make sense, since it doesn't sync comments. But the goal is to bootstrap content creation / combat people returning to reddit because they miss content there.

Shameless plug: have you seen [email protected] @lemmit.online?

Source code here: https://gitlab.com/sab_from_earth/lemmit

It's not entirely what you asked for, but I haven't seen anything that's like it either.