Senior software guy. Android app/system, cloud, DevOps, IoT, embedded, automotive.
80/20, Lemmy/Reddit.
Trending to 100/0.
It’s a planned feature if I’m not mistaken.
Great, so it’s reproducible and Lemmy-the-app related, not instance-specific. Should be fixable across the board once it’s identified and resolved.
It’s known in the industry as the throw-hardware-at-it optimization. It’s often effective and what’s needed to buy time for software optimization to come in.
Does this behaviour appear on other big instances? E.g. lemmy.ml?
That won’t change anything. The financial incentives from investors driving this will demand similar policies even if they get redressed in different marketing.