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Pixelfed's first plateau in progress
(slrpnk.net)
https://pixelfed.fediverse.observer/dailystats
Looks like Pixelfed's growth spurt is slowing down. Absent any new external stimuli I'm guessing it'll stabilize around 200K to 300K monthly active users -- over a hundredfold order of magnitude from what it was just a month ago.
I'm not a PHP fan but it scales better than Python or Ruby (Mastodon) does. I think Dan is a cowboy of an engineer, but blaming performance on his stack choice is a bad take.
Not php but Laravel. Like I said it forces workers to be on the same host with the same storage as the API, it doesn't allow scaling of multiple API nodes or worker nodes, and his docker containers require me running special commands left and right. No other docker containers of mine do that