In April and May, Lemmy had a great brand... but server crashes and then lemmy.ml closed sign-up.... sort of confusing people and then Lemmy.world became the brand, then it too has had to close home page many times and constant crashes....
The SQL performance issues that were in lemmy for years really - became trouble once data was introduced.
I don't even know how many times people have come to sing-up and heard about Lemmy to find it slow, crashing, errroring.
Social hazing, rock star glamour attitude among the audience who keeps using Lemmy... but these odd trends in 2023 with social media aren't unique to lemmy, are they?
Threads, Twitter to X, Reddit API change, Lemmy crashing and not really caring about the crashes - and Redis or Memcache to mitigate it.... it's all such an odd year. It's as if everyone stirred the pot with social media but no place to really land upon that isn't crashing or in some form of Elon Musk kind of chaos.
I remember the rise of Reddit, the rise of Gmail - and it just felt like the growth was being dealt with. In 2023, Twitter seems to be leading the entire audience into accepting a kind of crash bad experience and 'stick around, no matter how bad it is' that Reddit users seem to have accepted.
I don't want to be a Lemmy developer... I want the people who know Rust Diesel and such to actually make it work - or choose something else that does work. I want Lemmy to actually not crash all the time and at least be where Reddit was in 2008 when there were just a few programmers doing it.
The SQL statements and server crashes in Lemmy speak for them self, just like the chaos of Reddit and Elon Musk Twitter speaks for itself... but a lot of people accept it. The audience is not asking for stability.
Strange times in 2023!