Another thing, if and when mastodon becomes big how will the public list work? I mean, it seems to load up as new messages come in, I'd imagine things would start to overload and be nearly unusable? Say, because too many images + texts are loading at once leading to higher ram usage and the fact that it be unreadable with how quick things would load? Then again, I probably misunderstand how the public time line works.
@junho Depending on how you interpret Mastodon's internal systems, this should be impossible. After all, even the Federated Feed is limited in how much of the Fediverse it can access all at once. There's also nothing stopping you from simply scrolling through the feed slowly instead of sitting at the top and reading things as they come in-- even now, bigger instances have unreadable feeds in that sense.
As for ram usage, that's not a problem so long as they site is properly maintained. The only site I've seen with that problem is tumblr, and that site is such a mess that it's no mystery why it has problems loading things.
@MariBari TBF that, with tumblr you simply need to stop endless scrolling and ram usage becomes bearable. :P
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@junho True, but therein lies the problem with tumblr's optimization; the staff are more concerned with adding "features" (read: new problems that they refuse to fix) than they are with actually optimizing their terrible source code.
Most social networking sites have endless scrolling and work just fine, but tumblr has decided that the best decision is to give users the option to disable a key feature instead of optimizing it to be usable by most users.