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Federation is pretty cool (lemmy.ubergeek77.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I noticed my feed on Lemmy was pretty dry today, even for Lemmy. Took me a while to realize lemmy.ml has been going up and down all morning, and isn't federating new posts.

But, since this is all still federated, I can still create and read posts on other instances while I wait. Even this one! Any other service would just be unavailable completely right now.

I do miss the larger communities on lemmy.ml - asklemmy, memes, and I really wanted to watch the reddit fallout on /c/reddit. Maybe I'll look around for some good replacements for those. Open to suggestions!

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[-] julianh@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly surprised at how useable Lemmy is as a whole. Mastodon shit itself during the Twitter migration. Idk if it's just a lower volume of users or what.

[-] andrew@radiation.party 15 points 1 year ago

Mastodon is written in RoR, whereas Lemmy's backend is in Rust. It's an order of magnitude faster just by being a compiled language with lighter-weight middleware.

I haven't used Ruby/RoR in half a decade but even in the early 2010's it was memingly slow compared to many alternatives.