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Just started a community for those who wish to move away from Lemmy (piefed.social)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Recently joined and started a community for people who want to move away from Lemmy and want to see Lemmy loosen its stranglehold on the threadiverse, if that seems like something interesting to you consider checking out [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree, this whole idea of canceling Lemmy is weird and just feels reactionary. Also Piefed running on Python doesn't seem like something that can scale well nor something that can be perpetually worked on for the long haul without running into issues with new python releases and compatibility with them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Piefed being written in python means nothing.
Instagram and threads (and parts of the clusterfuck that is facebook) are written in python and seem to have scaled fine.

Performance is negligable -- the main bottleneck is I/O.
If a new python release breaks compatibility, Piefed can keep using the old version of python.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Instagram and threads (and parts of the clusterfuck that is facebook) are written in python and seem to have scaled fine.

How much of them? Parts being made in python isn't the same as your whole backend being written in 90% or nothing but python. But I guess we'll see.

If a new python release breaks compatibility, Piefed can keep using the old version of python.

Technically yes, though I wonder how long that would last if the next jump is anything like the last. I can already imagine the people bitching about "SeCUriTy" just like many were when people talked about maintaining backwards compatibility or keeping python2 support in the days of the transition to python3.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

All of instagram and threads.
Only parts of facebook are written in python because its really fucked up.