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Now Reddit are coming for the individual personal subreddits

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485 points dredmorbius | 3 comments | 22 Jun 23 16:41 UTC | HN request time: 0.646s | source
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bhouston ◴[22 Jun 23 17:23 UTC] No.36435600[source]▶
https://lemmy.ml OR https://lemmy.world and https://kbin.social and are quite nice. Been posting there myself and it is great.

Lemmy is having some stability issues across its instances because of this growth curve: https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/693866c7-8f65-4046-8781-58aee70...

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kimbernator ◴[22 Jun 23 17:37 UTC] No.36435808[source]▶
I'm trying really hard to like Lemmy, but whenever I'm reading through posts on "active", "hot", etc. it will initially load with the correct content. But then, I get about 10 seconds before the entire list frantically reflows and fills with brand new posts from all over the place. Extraordinarily annoying. I get that creating a new post is itself "activity" which is probably why it does that, I don't think posts of that nature meet the description of "hot".

Maybe I just need to be going by Top->Day

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1. Saris ◴[22 Jun 23 17:52 UTC] No.36436048[source]▶
I believe hot is currently bugged, I use recent comments as sorting and I find that nice.
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2. kimbernator ◴[22 Jun 23 17:56 UTC] No.36436129[source]▶
I just tried that. 2 of the top 6 posts that popped up had zero comments. Within a few seconds, brand new posts (with no engagement) starting filling in from the stop.

It seems like the content algorithm is fundamentally broken right now.

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3. Saris ◴[23 Jun 23 22:37 UTC] No.36453133[source]▶
I think that just got fixed in the newest version, but it'll take a bit for instances to update.

They switched from using websockets with a constant feed of new posts, to just normal http.