I was wondering if old reddit+res+ublock origin is comparable to lemmy?
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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.
old.lemmy.world: 20.25 mb
Damn that efficiency is sexy I gotta go back to using mlmym again!
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.
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
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
