Comment by nosecreek - Hacker Neue

nosecreek Jun 15, 2023 parent

Lemmy definitely looks interesting and I should really give it a shot, but while the fediverse stuff adds a lot of value I think it also makes it a lot more complicated. I think the tech stack matters too - running old forums on a LAMP stack made them pretty easy for a lot of people to setup on cheap hosting. When I go the "Run a Server" section in the Lemmy docs it immediately starts talking about Docker, etc. which I think is a much bigger barrier to entry for those who want to host an instance.

dragontamer Jun 18, 2023

A word of caution: Lemmy has a serious number of bugs in its web front-end. A lot of "spinning forever" bugs instead of reporting errors, and other such issues.

I don't know how solid the backend is, but instances are crapping out on ~10,000ish users on smallish dedicated servers, suggesting severe bottlenecks in the code. Current discussion seems to suggest RAM bottlenecks and a lot of swapping.

Lemmy wasn't quite ready for the #RedditBlackout. But I think its still in a "workable enough" state to experiment with. Some communities (ex: Beehaw.org) are worried about growing faster than needed (human-side scaling, not machine side). Since Beehaw.org is trying to recruit specific kinds of people / posting patterns.

So I guess what I'm saying is... Lemmy tech stack is good enough for Beehaw.org. I dunno if its good enough for Lemmy.world (which is very "Reddit-like" in open enrollments / ease of community making).

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