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What non-technical criticisms do you have of the Lemmy/kbin/link aggregator fediverse experience? (septic.win)

submitted 1 year ago by LimitedDuck@septic.win to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] mplewis@lemmy.globe.pub 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Setting up a Lemmy server outside of the golden path of using the Ansible template is extremely difficult. I do this professionally and I couldn't get federation working properly when running Lemmy on my Kubernetes instance.

Figuring out why federation is failing is very, very hard.

Lemmy requires a lot of resources to run. You need a VPS that's at least $20/mo to work adequately under any load. Disk storage requirements for the DB are also rather high.

Lemmy 0.18.2 has some horrendous N+1 DB calls, e.g. one query per language (173 of them) when you create a new community. This hamstrings databases that are not colocated onto the same machine, e.g. neon.tech's hosted pg db. I expect this will improve with time as the codebase matures, yet...

Instance administration tools are sorely lacking.