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  • My point is that you can’t compare a platform like reddit to a protocol like email.

    While gmail and outlook are insanely big, how much of all email traffic do they handle? Sure, they are insanely big, but I doubt they are above 50%

    On the other hand, how big is reddit compared to all other link aggregators? I think it’s pretty surely far above 50%.

    Or how big is YouTube as a VOD platform?

    I’m not advocating for discuit, but being like “they think federation can’t build a mainstream platform, but look at email” is kind of missing the point.

    Also email is the only example for federation. It’s an outlier, mainly because it was one of the first things on the net. Everything else is platforms, unfortunately.



















  • They don’t need to be. When you’re posting a comment, that’s a database query. Not from you directly, but you’re submitting a comment, which tells the frontend to tell the backend to tell the database to save that comment.

    Now do that a thousand times and you created a thousand database queries. Now do something more elaborate, like filtering search results or something, and you put a bit more load on the database.

    And apparently there seem to be some queries that a user can create that cause issues if submitted by the thousands.