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Lemmyloves.art has shut down in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I can’t seem to access https://literature.cafe as well. Was there any communication about that?

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The writing in The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu) feels tacky (programming.dev)
 

I have been reading the English translations and the characters and especially their dialogues feel very fake. I do appreciate the hard science aspect of the books but the long monologues, kids speaking like middle-aged philosophers, and army personnel being one-dimensional macho men breaks the immersion for me. It has the depth of a 1980s low-budget thriller.

I don’t read a lot of hard science fiction or translations of Chinese books. I don’t know if this is genre-related.

We had a good run, thank you everyone in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The apps are already amazing and will not suffer issues of scale themselves because they run on users’ devices. The scaling issues will be in Lemmy server code and ActivityPub in general.

ActivityPub doesn’t seem very scalable IMHO. It works well if all instances are about the same size and communities are well-distributed. Right now a few servers like lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, and lemmy.ml are much larger than others. They host most of the popular communities as well. This creates an imbalance which ActivityPub doesn’t handle well.

I think Lemmy instances should be topic based. But that’d be confusing for people coming from centralized social media who are only trying to find a reliable starting place. So I really hope we reach a point of maturity and mainstream-ness of Fediverse that people feel comfortable with smaller theme-based instances.

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Foxconn dumps $19.5 billion Vedanta chip plan in blow to India (www.reuters.com)
 

This is disheartening. Not having local semiconductor production is a liability. I hope we get some capabilities soon.