Likely Saturday, 1st of November.
We need to do some server OS upgrades and a some other things that will cause a few hours downtime.
Maybe I will already start with some smaller things this week, that should only cause a short down-time for reboots.
Once that is done, I will look into running a Piefed test instance to investigate how to do the database migration from Lemmy. If everything goes smoothly, we might be able to do the Lemmy to Piefed migration end of this year or early next year.
Yeah, in theory the memory-safe nature of Rust is appealing, but unfortunately it also still seems to come with some unrelated downsides. I’m sure @poVoq@slrpnk.net could go into more detail there :p
It seems that while lemmy could implement similar resource usage improvements, it would otherwise be only slightly faster than Piefed, as it appears that once those other optimizations are made, the main bottleneck on performance is the database itself, and at that point the language the frontend is written in doesn’t seem to make much of a practical difference. At least, that’s what I’ve been told.