Lemmy and my Switch to PieFed; Threadyverse software alternatives
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TLDR: The main reason was Lemmy hogging server resources.

Last year, during the Reddit 2023 API controversy I finally deleted my account and moved on to Lemmy. Here’s a look at my experiences and why I eventually decided to switch to PieFed.

    • PenguinCoder@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Java and gradle build is way easier (IMO) than trying to wrangle the dep and build steps of everything react/node/rust based.

    • cerement@slrpnk.net
      3·
      1 year ago

      along those lines, how well would the link-aggregator concept match up with one of the BEAM languages (Erlang, Elixir, Gleam)?

      • kopper [they/them]@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        The Pleroma family of ActivityPub servers are on Elixir and their bottleneck seems to be their awful database schema where everything is JSONB, and even then they’re known to be quite lightweight, so I assume with a proper DB schema it’d work quite well…