Lemmy Project Priorities Observations

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I've raised my voice loudly on meta communities, github, and created new [email protected] and [email protected] communities.

I feel like the performance problems are being ignored for over 30 days when there are a half-dozen solutions that could be coded in 5 to 10 hours of labor by one person.

I've been developing client/server messaging apps professionally since 1984, and I firmly believe that Lemmy is currently suffering from a lack of testing by the developers and lack of concern for data loss. A basic e-mail MTA in 1993 would send a "did not deliver" message back to message sender, but Lemmy just drops delivery and there is no mention of this in the release notes//introduction on GitHub. I also find that the Lemmy developers do not like to "eat their own dog food" and actually use Lemmy's communities to discuss the ongoing development and priorities of Lemmy coding. They are not testing the code and sampling the data very much, and I am posting here, using Lemmy code, as part of my personal testing! I spent over 100 hours in June 2023 testing Lemmy technical problems, especially with performance and lost data delivery.

I'll toss it into this echo chamber.

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the open source cross-application platforms like Kbin or Lemmy, it's been really hard for me to adjust to the chaos of it all and the server crashes causing so many people problems.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've created code in the past 60 days to rewrite replication, migrate data from lost instances like vlemmy, and other things but the server crashes have had me lose faith in a lot of the work I did. it has been nice to see others make good progress with front-ends.

it's an interesting article and beehaw's discussion on it really has some good comments. https://beehaw.org/post/6873241

I also sense a lot of people's disappointment of what Reddit became and the loss of a lot of good historical discussions. One thing I liked doing on Reddit was reading past discussions, years back, about films and such. And now it invokes a lot of emotions about how big companies and society general keeps trending towards self-destruction of good content. And seeing instances go down like vlemmy - makes it clear that the same can happen here. The crashes are a reminder too.