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.

  • mryessir@lemmy.sdf.org
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    17 days ago

    There is Sublink but it’s written in Java, I don’t think I want to deal with Java’s runtime environment.

    Don’t hate Java just for the sake of it. According to the repository they ship a Dockerfile and use gradle to build it. Everything should be abstracted for you.

    When comparing environments for a program between Java and Python you should probably prefer Java’s. Years of experience and build from the ground up for enterprise deployment. Python module system is hacked together. It ain’t even be fair for python to compare itself in this regard.

    Also this project is spot-on within Java’s main territory. It makes absolutely sense to me to use Java for such a program.

    Plus monitoring/maintaining a Java application is way better then any python program.

    • cerement@slrpnk.net
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      17 days 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
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        10 days 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…

    • maegul@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      17 days ago

      I think there’s a pretty fair argument that more common and easier languages and tech stacks are preferable platforms for smaller more personal instances … just the comfort of being able to modify and debug is probably worth whatever other tradeoffs may be encountered. Python, naturally, is basically a prime candidate. So yea, PieFed seems very cool, especially for personal servers and they’ve got a good performance profile.