I have no insight into why it’s being done in this instance, but object storage is typically used when you want to move away from storing things on your web server with “fixed” storage, and instead store it in an “infinitely” expandable storage system. It is also much easier to manage when you have multiple servers as it’s separate and shared.

Best bet is to check out the GitHub repo

That’s exactly what is happening now. Lemmy is a very young codebase and up until very recently only had a tiny user base, so optimisation wasn’t that important.

Over the last few months the Devs have been working hard to improve things, but there is a lot of ground to cover

Possibly not ideal for you as a data engineer, but you could try skimming down the GitHub database issues?

Just to add to this.

This is because the authentication tokens that your browser uses are stored in cookies, these match up with entries in the database.

As a way to mitigate the hack, admins deleted the entries in the database rendering the tokens in cookies useless.

This means that any tokens the hacker got access to are also useless.

Haptics are possible if you aren’t using iOS. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator/vibrate