I was wondering if old reddit+res+ublock origin is comparable to lemmy?

    • Beaver@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      10·
      5 months ago

      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.

      • Emotet@slrpnk.net
        12·
        5 months ago

        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?

      • Cloudless ☼@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        7·
        5 months ago

        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.

  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world
    16·
    5 months ago

    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

  • Zak@lemmy.world
    14·
    5 months ago

    According to a memory snapshot from Firefox 126 devtools, with uBlock Origin, immediately after a fresh page load:

    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.

  • ordellrb@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    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.