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On the other hand it appears to me that
lemmy
(the software) isn't quite ready to handle such a massive influx of new users. So what is better?I'm pretty confident that in a few weeks or maybe months
lemmy
has matured enough to easily handle the amount of traffic it is currently struggling with quite a bit.Your comment raises an interesting question: How prepared is Lemmy (the software) to scale?
I'd say not that well. It's still very young, and this is almost certainly a lot more users than the developers were originally expecting at this point in time.
Part of the motivation for them moving away from web sockets in the first place is because the bugs and inefficiencies with using websockets made it less efficient, increasing the amount of load when the instances got big.
Mass moderation and post sorting tools don't exist yet, and there's no automated moderation system, which is a must-have for big subreddits/communities.
If you were around for early Reddi that site was atrocious for blackouts and they even said they'd reached the limits of current technology about 10yrs ago until they finally switched from Postgres for the main site.