It is the squandered experience of over 4 years of development that I've witnessed the most... the people who knew how to do the required changes to scale the app fed the problem apathy.
Lemmy Project Priorities Observations
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.
https://beehaw.org/post/7618912 dust settles about code over past months
Self-evident is that the May through August opportunity from Reddit didn't work out, the over 4 years of experience from the key developers just didn't get applied to the project in much time. But there seems to be a recognition of technical issues more instead of just front-end apps / API smartphone apps... so maybe things will progress through the experience people have gained in having the code crash / lacking features.
It isn't the only social media software that isn't progressing, It isn't even just Twitter and Reddit, it's bottom-up society.