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  • It’s the inverse that is true actually -

    As Lemmy becomes more popular it will drift from being so tech focused.

    Many popular sites gradually drifted off of tech focus as their user base grew. R*ddit is a prime example of how a very nerdy niche site grew and shifted to be popular (sorta) organically.

    I do think that for all the hullabaloo about Ellen Pao and banning a bunch of subreddits - that actually did more to open the place up to users who were otherwise driven away by /r/FatPeopleHate and /r/Jailbait being on the front page all the time.

    If Lemmy were to change to attract users it would likely be from increased defederation with instances that are less palatable to mainstream society.










  • It’s how big orgs like Google do it, sure. Working there I had 192gb of ram on my cloudtop.

    That’s not exactly reducing the total spend on dev ram though - quite the opposite. It’s getting more ram than you can fit in a device available to the devs.

    But you can’t have it both ways: you can’t bitch and moan about “always on internet connections” and simultaneously push for an always on internet connected IDE to do your builds.

    I want to be able to work offline whenever I need to. That’s not possible if my resource starved terminal requires an Internet connection to run.

    Ram is dirt cheap and only getting cheaper.