If caching is properly configured, the cache (Cloudflare) will see thousands of requests, but the VPS should only see one request.

Just put the site behind a cache, like Cloudflare, and set your cache control headers properly?

Fair. That was overgeneralizing German bureaucracy to the entire EU.

But I think the point that tech companies in Europe rarely survive still stands.

The EU is terrible at maintaining good tech companies.

Like, they have some really important and innovative consumer protection regulations, but they are really shooting themselves in the foot with this one…

MATLAB

Big +1 for MDN.

The Mozilla Developer Network should be considered the standard reference for frontend HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

(Aside from, you know, the actual standards. But those documents aren’t exactly approachable for new developers.)

I use a Lemmy app with IAP (Sync)

It’s great. I literally moved to Lemmy because of Sync.

What’s the time window?

Like, is this uptime over the past 30d? Over the past year? For all time?

IMO, 30d and 365d are the most useful windows.

With fixed sorting algorithms, the server can do caching and indexing to speed it up. (Emphasis on “can”. IDK if Lemmy servers actually do this.)

With custom sorts, that goes out the window.

I would like to see some kind of “canonicalization” feature in Lemmy to support this, similar to CNAME in DNS.

For example, !android@lemmy.world recently merged into !android@lemdro.id, where lemdro.id is the canonical server.

So it would be awesome if !android@lemmy.world was entirely equivalent to !android@lemdro.id. But as it stands, the lemmy.world community had to lock and everyone had to individually migrate themselves.

Essentially, in a case like this, I just want to call it !android (or c/android) and not need to care about which server it is hosted on. But as it is currently, I always have to reference the canonical domain since it is different than the one my account is on.

and doesn’t even need a discussion.

The assumption that anti-corporate is the unanimous opinion of everyone here is false. I have and use apps from Meta. This is a topic that very much needs discussion.

I for one would appreciate federation with Meta. We can always defederate if Meta actually does something objectionable. But I see no reason to defederate before we actually know what federation with Meta looks like.