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Community for the Feddit UK instance.
A place to log issues, and for the admins to communicate with everyone.

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Anyone else visiting Lemmy more because feddit.uk is SO GOD DAMN FAST (self.feddituk)

submitted 1 year ago by Andi to c/feddituk

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Truly loving this instance, and UK servers are clearly helping with speed for both the website version and API calls from Connect for Lemmy.

Thanks @tom@feddit.uk - your work is greatly appreciated (buy him a coffee!) and I truly hope Lemmy takes off as the new MANY front pages of the Internet. 🙂

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[–] Andi 11 points 1 year ago

True, but it's up to Tom if he wishes to be transparent about costs and/or donations received or not.

As I used to run a large server for a large community forum a few years ago - admin'ing something like this can sometimes be a very thankless task, and users will be sympathetic if you're out of pocket (and only some will help) but as soon as they see you made a tiny bit of profit one month, they forget the fact that actually, you're about £1k down at the moment, as this extra £62.32 I've made this mornth can go against that... ;-) Not to mention the free time given up to actually maintain and look after a busy server. So I'd totally understand if he didn't want others telling him what he might be doing wrong with his costs, etc. "Oh, well, you could save £4.20 if you moved the whole service to this little unknown company ... etc." :)

I'm also hoping as the code for Lemmy matures, it becomes less memory-hungry and more CPU-friendly. The more help they get on Github to make it truly scalable, the better.

Time will tell! I'm just thankful for what we have now.