Is it me or is the 80% figure just insane?

Not really, you’d be surprised how often systems are bloated all because of a single option, character, etc. Most developers don’t start optimizing until much later in the software’s lifecycle. Often enough, it is easily overlooked. That’s why code reviews are needed often with fresh pair of eyes.

Just to set the expectations, reducing database size or CPU usage does not necessarily mean it is faster but it does mean there’s more free capacity on the servers to handle more users at the same performance.

More importantly; they may help reduce costs on the smaller indie instances that doesn’t need to buy larger server instances.

Hopefully, we’ll continue to see more of these optimizations.

Wow, thank you. I acutally was hoping you were going to add this becasue Alexandrite is the best desktop UI for Lemmy so far.

It also means Lemmy.world is turning into the best instance already because they’re the most user-friendly and customizable one.

Great work!

FYI: I got rated limited on the first link but the second time worked right away. There might be some glitch there.