Are you browsing with a Raspberry Pi Zero? Otherwise the memory usage impact should be minimal.
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Thanks for asking! I’m using a T440 thinkpad with 8gbs of ram. I’m not planing to upgrade the specs as it is my backup linux machine. I would like to be able to use it in the optimal way possible.
Pretty much anything, from your Desktop Environment to the simplest application running in the background, will have way more of an impact than pretty much any semistatic website. I'm curious, what do you mean with "in the optimal way possible"? Are you constantly maxing out your RAM already, and if so, how?
I think restricting yourself to certain website for optimisation isn't necessary.
It is like saying you would avoid driving a city car to the motorway because it is more efficient on city roads.
The biggest ram usage factor is going to be your browser. Beyond that, my first impression is that the browser version of lemmy is far more resource efficient since there's no ads
According to a memory snapshot from Firefox 126 devtools, with uBlock Origin, immediately after a fresh page load:
- old.reddit.com: 52.54 mb
- new.reddit.com: 93.48 mb
- lemmy.world: 54.44 mb
- old.lemmy.world: 20.25 mb
I imagine both versions of Reddit would be worse without the adblocker. There are multiple frontends for Lemmy, and I did not test them all. Other browsers might differ slightly.
I never knew lemmy had an "old" version! Thanks
Lemmy.world hosts at least five web frontends, which are in the frontpage sidebar:
- The default Lemmy UI
- https://a.lemmy.world - Alexandrite UI
- https://photon.lemmy.world - Photon UI
- https://m.lemmy.world - Voyager mobile UI
- https://old.lemmy.world - A familiar UI
It's possible to use other frontends as well, which don't necessarily have to be hosted by your Lemmy server.
I'm pretty sure the latest reddit has a memory leak that overwhelms the mobile browser after a few minutes and breaks typing.
Are there React apps that don't have memory leaks?
Probably not. It's such a convoluted and buggy system.
old.lemmy.world: 20.25 mb
Damn that efficiency is sexy I gotta go back to using mlmym again!
Reddit would stutter after a while of scrolling the frontpage on my 8gb Laptop(new reddit with ublock), but run endlessly on the Infinity app on phone. Lemmy has no infinite long frontpage and gets refreshed with every new page. Had no noticable stutters on lemmy, but i use it mostly on the mobile Browser.
You can probably check that out in the performance section of your browser dev tools