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cross-posted from: https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/233339

Comments from the original poster:

Not much else needs to be said tbh. Fuck Spez. // Edit: Not sure why imgur marked the album as NSFW, but there’s nothing NSFW in it other than the name of one of the mods including the word “removed”

Personal comment: the critter isn’t even dead but the vultures are already flying in circles around it. I certainly do not envy their situation, I bet that the users will treat them like shit.

  • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Yeah, I mean the goal would be to link the IDs across all instances. Rather than having different numbers and running a calculation into a table that links the IDs, you could just have a table, or better yet just have the same ID.

    The issue probably lies in creation of new IDs. Different instances may have to be allocated a block of IDs, so that they can create new IDs without conflicting with any other instance.

    • TehPers@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      The idea behind UUIDs is that there are so many (128 bits) that you don’t need to worry about allocating blocks or anything. Each post gets a random UUID, that’s its ID, and it’s propagated along with the post so other instances can reuse that UUID.

      • db2English
        1·
        1 year ago

        If each instance can have a unique prefix then there’s zero chance of collision.

        XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX

        If those first 8 are the prefix that’s room for over 4.2 billion unique instances, which is more than half the population of the whole planet. Do you think there’ll be that many?