Wintermute

There is an official announcement here: https://lemmy.ml/post/2540874

I think you’re underestimating the number of requests that a server can handle. Even my tiny instance currently sees dozens of requests every second and is very lightly loaded. A single request per minute is an immeasurably small load.

AFAIK, you can’t load comments on posts manually. You only get comments that are pushed to your instance after someone has subscribed to the community containing the post.

I agree. Sadly it seems the rest of the world does not. Hopefully as Lemmy matures we can get to a point where features are not pushed put half-baked because there aren’t enough people willing and able to give thorough code reviews.

Federation works in the opposite direction. It’s push-based rather than pull-based. To get posts from Beehaw, Beehaw has to actively push those posts to your instance. With this move, Beehaw is choosing to no longer push posts to lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works.

Apollo is literally just one dude. He should do whatever he wants. He had a good run, almost certainly made a life-changing amount of money and is ready to move on. I can totally respect that.

I also think anyone who says <app> should “just” <thing> probably has never written anything as complex and popular as Apollo before. There really is no “just” anything at that scale.

Just waiting isn’t a great idea since communities don’t sync on their own. Someone needs to search for the communities before they will show up on your instance, that someone might as well be you.

I think things have tightened up a lot over there in the last 5 or so days. I don’t even remember what I put (definitely nothing more substantial than yours) and I have an account over there of similar to age. People who have tried to sign up more recently have mentioned being rejected after multiple serious looking responses.

I’ve never been a Zelda fan, but this list makes me think I should try BotW :D

I’m with you on this one. I got moderately stuck at one point pretty early on in the game (I’m not sure, but I think my save was probably bugged). Anyway, I put the game down and never touched it again. Didn’t feel like I had lost anything at all.