Hey, Gerome.

Some websites allow “strictly necessary cookies”…those work on some websites.

I’d buy one if it were reasonably priced.

Inception?

That’s the main issue with premature optimization: do it the “optimized” way and it may still be inefficient, or do it the obvious way and let the compiler turn it into its most optimized form. (Of course, not the case with all languages, but most mainstream compilers optimize the code to a decent extent.)

Oh sorry, you’re right. Amended my comment.

Especially 260.

Sometimes you gotta tickle its balls to wake it up.

If that is a solution you’d need to change the ActivityPub specification. You are more than welcome to submit your idea.

AFAIK, the ActivityPub specification has no requirements on how likes should be stored. The two things that is requires are that likes are added to the user's liked collection, and that the post's like count is updated.

This is also not compatible with the ActivityPub spec but even if it were you’d win nothing because as soon as you fetch the post it is still on the server.

Mastodon actually just stores all this data on the server containing the post itself. Instance admins get as much information about the post as the client does. Both Lemmy and Mastodon use the same protocol, but Mastodon chooses to only to trust the server the user is using, and not the third-party servers.

I’d first have to create 2000 users, then I’d have to send 2000 upvotes. And then I’d get blocked by all instances.

Creating that many users wouldn't be hard to do(you don't need to use the GUI, just a little SQL is all that's needed). And you don't need to "send" the upvotes; you can sidestep the protocol entirely and just update the database. That's the problem.

And while yeah, the instances would block me, they probably wouldn't notice if I did it at a much smaller scale. In fact, there's no real easy way to check whether these upvotes from an instance are actually real.

Ultimately, I ended up using Astro, Rust was giving me too much pain for no tangible gain.

Came here to say that.