0.19.3 is now the most installed version
0.19.3 is now the most installed version
Good to see that most of the instances have caught up
LW announced they are planning to migrate in the coming weeks: [email protected]
What's LW's reason for staying on 18.5? Is it client compatibility? Not looking to grab pitchforks, genuinely curious.
Edit: Nvm, from https://lemmy.ml/post/11122503:
We do not have a hard date set for when we will be upgrading as of yet, as we have about 7 associated task items that go along with this upgrade for things we need to double-check and confirm there will be no breakage.
Wish they would go into more detail, but ya
Yea it's one of those awkward things I suppose, where the instance (.world) is big enough that its operational concerns are kinda at odds with where lemmy as a project is up to.
With that many users, who also kinda expect a more reddit-style experience AFAICT, a certain amount of professionalism, stability and, in effect, slowness, is expected. And that's great.
But meanwhile lemmy is a small essentially underfunded project doing its best with a small group (2 main and a few voluntary on the side), which means bugs and then bug fixes and tweaking until things work ... all of which works well over a distributed array of smaller instances so that no single node is a major let alone fatal point of failure.
And so we've got this situation now where you could be critical of how lemmy.world relates to the bug fixing and testing load on the lemmy-verse. lemmy.world is likely the best funded instance (last I checked their donations exceed their infra needs) and yet the job of testing and working through bugs is offloaded onto all of the other smaller instances while they wait until it's all been ironed out. I don't know if it's a fair critique in the end, but it certainly seems to be there and worth considering.
Interesting point.
On the other side, as LW is more cautious about updates, that might have suggested some users to switch to instances that were more up-to-date.
But indeed I agree that people should be more spread, having 25% of Lemmy on one instance is less than ideal: https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy
Just chiming in to say they lost my donations and me as a user for federating with Threads. I'm over on feddit.de now because they're the only instance I could find defederated from Threads and the tankies.
Edit: Have to edit this comment because I'm laughing at all of the butthurt users who are downvoting me because they don't like my personal decision.
Given how hard and long the upgrade from 18.5 went on my instance, I don't blame them.
It's a bit tricky, because at the same time they are holding 25% of Lemmy users back in terms of features.
User level instance blocking was a huge one for a lot of people