I know that Lemmy is open source and it can only get better from here on out, but I do wonder if any experts can weigh in whether the foundation is well written? Or are we building on top of 4 years worth of tech debt?

  • solrize
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    1 year ago

    1. I don’t like the front end at all, partly from design preferences but partly because it is buggy. People have complained about the code too, but I haven’;t looked at it. I think the API is more important than the front end though. If the API is responsive, there will be more alternative front ends.

    2. The back end is written in Rust which has a significant learning curve, so that is in some ways a good sign. It sounds like Postgres is doing a lot of the heavy lifting though. So I don’t know what the benefits of the Rust backend really are. I do want to look into it.