It doesn’t access old browser history but from the moment it is installed onwards it sends every url you visit to 7 instances, to do a search. Any one of those instances could save those urls and over time build up a profile on someone.

I guess if the logic for finding the posts was done on the server then you would only need one API call - the extension would just send through whatever url it had. That would be more efficient.

If this gets popular I’d be open to adding a dedicated API endpoint for this to PieFed.

Kind of a privacy nightmare though, aye. Sending your whole browser history to a third party… But that’s a whole different issue.

All it would need is about 10 simultaneous users and the load on the server would be unacceptable to me, as an instance admin. I only run PieFed instances so this isn’t going to impact me unless you add PieFed support (please don’t).

This is going to absolutely hammer the search API endpoint. Every single time you visit any web page there will be around 5 different requests to lemmy-instance/api/v3/search (see generateUrlVariations()) and running a search is pretty heavy on the server.

I just read the code, didn’t actually install the extension, so I could be wrong but at first glance this looks like it would cause real problems if a significant number of people started using it.

The outbox on a Lemmy community only has the last 50 posts and there is no pagination to get another 50. Also Lemmy posts have no replies collection so it’s impossible to get the replies without using their API.

a similar amount of energy to running a hair dryer

We see a lot of those kinds of comparisons. Thing is, you run a hair dryer once per day at most. Or it’s compared to a google search, often. Again, most people will do a handful of searches each day. A ChatGPT conversation can be hundreds of messages back and forth. A Claude Code session can go for hours and involve millions of tokens. An individual AI inference might be pretty tame but the quantity of them is another level.

If it was so efficient then they wouldn’t be building Manhatten-sized datacenters.

There are sooo many S3 providers.

Hetzner is 5 Euro / mo for 1 TB (traffic is extra). Cloudflare R2 is $15 / mo for 1 TB (traffic is free and they charge per GB so you’d probably pay much less than that).

One availability zone is enough. I am not convinced that Aurora is good value.

This seems like an ad for pulumi, whatever that is.

weeell, maybe more impressive if I’d tested it better weeks ago, but I’ll take the W

Fixed now!

Go to https://piefed.social/user/settings/filters and save the form to flush a cache and then the fix will kick in.

PieFed has a “Hide posts in communities with these words in their name” filter for exactly this scenario.

Data center servers are a different breed. I got an old one for cheap once and only ran it for a few minutes because it sounded like a jet engine. No way to make that thing efficient.

On the face of it, I agree. But 12 jurors who heard the whole story, probably for days or weeks, disagree with that.

Wow copyparty is insane!

I’ve been lurking in threads like this for 2+ years, and coding accordingly.

Leaving the 3 biggest news comms has been one of the best things I’ve done recently.

Googles knows a LOT more about you than what you watch on YouTube.

piefed.social now has a Zulip server too although the Matrix rooms are still open. Seems like the tide is going out on Matrix though.

Also Terrorgram.

If that’s been their goal for decades then there would be something written down to that effect. Policy statements, press releases, meeting minutes… Got anything?