The thing about Federation is that one server of a few hundred users can federate with all the other servers of a few hundred units and also other Federated services.
The next thing you know, you have a social network graph of millions of people, on thousands of servers (and not one ad).
#NotTheOnion Microsoft will make millions of computers obsolete and will generate thousands of tonnes of eWaste on International eWaste Day.
“Windows 10 security updates end on 14 October 2025, KDE’s 29th birthday and also, ironically, International E-Waste Day [1] (you cannot make these things up!)”
One of the KPIs for IBM engineers used to be kLOCs or “1000 lines of code”. This encouraged the engineers to write more complicated, obfuscated, inefficient code.
If you cleaned up your code to be more efficient, you were penalised.
While this doesn’t make sense to developers and users, it does make sense to hardware sales staff. The crappier a program runs on the existing hardware, the more incentivised customers are to buy new hardware.
My argument is that by adding technologies branded as “AI” to software platforms that inefficiently consume system resources, software developers don’t actually add anything to the platform. It is just a way for manufacturers to create more eWaste through forced obsolescence.
It just goes to show that the current LLM/AI hype only exists to sell new hardware.
The manufacturers want to keep us in the RatRace, which is why they keep pushing out inefficient features that nobody wants.
Before anyone gets on their soapbox about GNU/Linux, the big distros are just as bloated as Windows and MacOS!
They have “simplified” their installers for novices to the point where everything, including the kitchen sink is installed.
I think that Lemmy does need more of the right exposure.
If you search for any Lemmy content on Google or Duck-Duck-Go, you don’t get any good results. This is probably because most people use Apps or secure browsers that don’t allow tracking.
Maybe Duck-Duck-Go need to have a !bang search modifier for Lemmy. https://duckduckgo.com/bangs
Ubiquiti also offer a consumer/gamer mesh product but it is typically more expensive than their prosumer products, and less extensible.