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Some of the planned blackouts will be temporary, others plan to shut their subreddits down indefinitely in protest.

  • @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
    18•1 year ago

    Lemmy is written in async Rust. The language isn’t going to create a scaling problem. Well-written async Rust applications have handled vastly heavier workloads than Lemmy without a hitch.

    There are, however, some serious performance bottlenecks that need to be dealt with, and it remains to be seen whether any more bottlenecks remain undiscovered in either the protocol or the implementation. To be honest, as someone working on a Rust+Postgres application myself, this is the sort of thing that keeps me up at night.

    Hosting can of course be an issue as well. I’m under the impression that Beehaw had to go up several tiers in its hosting plan in the last few days in response to the surge in demand. I assume this was done to work around the aforementioned bottlenecks by simply throwing more hardware at the problem, but I don’t know.

    • 🦊 OneFluffyBoi 🦊
      9•1 year ago

      @argv_minus_one I see. The more I look into it, the more I think Lemmy should still be considered beta software like kbin, TBH. Some important features are still missing and the optimization is lacking.

          • @ericjmorey@beehaw.org
            2•1 year ago

            My biggest concern with kbin is its in alpha, very little time in use to smooth things out, there’s more likely to be major changes to its functionality, possibly breaking changes. I’m olso not too interested in following individuals outside of my Mastodon account.

              • @ericjmorey@beehaw.org
                2•1 year ago

                I’m not sure I’m understanding. Lemmy is different in the way I described. What features (other than following individuals) are you talking about?

                • 🦊 OneFluffyBoi 🦊
                  2•1 year ago

                  @ericjmorey What I’m suggesting is that

                  “My biggest concern with kbin is its in alpha, very little time in use to smooth things out, there’s more likely to be major changes to its functionality, possibly breaking changes.”

                  is also something that applies to Lemmy, so I’m not sure why you’d knock one platform for it but not the other.

                  And even if you’re not particularly interested in following non-Lemmy users, others are and it would resolve an interop asymmetry that has formed due to lacking this functionality. Like, the only reason we can have this conversation in the first place is because Mastodon supports following Lemmy users and communities and allows me to interact with them, but it’s not currently possible to follow non-Lemmy users on Lemmy, which makes the interop very one-sided and cuts you guys off from a large chunk of content (unless you make accounts on other platforms, but Fediverse platforms shouldn’t require that just to subscribe to public content feeds, as the interop is one of the Fediverse’s biggest selling points over silo’d corporate social media).

                  • @ericjmorey@beehaw.org
                    2•1 year ago

                    I’m not sure why you’d knock one platform for it but not the other.

                    Time and scale of use of Lemmy is much greater, therefor more problems have been identified and fixed. It’s possible that kbin devs are smarter of better or have been able to benefit from observing the experiences of Lemmy devs, but non of those are safe assumptions without specific knowledge.

                    It’s also possible that the kbin design is simply a better one for any number of reasons. But we won’t know that until is gets much more use by many more people. Lemmy has that “advantage” now, thus the safer bet is on Lemmy.

                    It seems like the Lemmy devs are not interested in creating the feature of following individuals. Unless someone forks the project to add it, anyone who wants that feature should give kbin a try. I’m not one of them.

      • @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org
        7•1 year ago

        Yep. It works 🥳 and has all the basic features you’d expect of a Reddit replacement 🥳 but will no doubt have the same growing pains as early Reddit did.