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Discussion - Potential piefed instance in the future?
(lemmy.dbzer0.com)
Hello m@teys,
I've been waiting for this a long time (half a year), personally. After seeing the surge in piefed instances, i.e. blahaj, .ca, .zip, quokk.au, and .world creating their own instances, and clients guaranteeing future piefed support, we've been thinking about potentially opening an instance in the future. Not a guarantee, just an idea. This isn't a voting thread, just a discussion. Later on we'll actually vote on this.
Do note that this thread will not guarantee an instance; we are discussing a hypothetical. Suggestions? Ideas? Criticisms? make your voice heard.
Have a good week!
pie picture comes from here
governance type: sense check
A comment I came across a while ago puts it quite well:
from: https://sopuli.xyz/comment/17119490
the comments' thread is also quite interesting
Plus it's written in Python and has only 1,6k MAUs, so we can only guess how well it scales
Slightly edited from an older comment of mine:
EDIT: as such I believe that operating a Piefed instance would be a waste resources and actually harmful considering the fragmentation it would cause for little to no benefit at all (also it seems much better set up for a new Reddit with all the .world'ers flooding over there and the anti-features)
Instagram is written in a much more heavy python framework, but it scaled fine.
I'd be willing to bet that the backend isn't
Its the backend. It uses django which is more resource intensive than flask, which piefed uses.
Huh, TIL. Though some websites say they made the performance intensive stuff like image processing in C++
On python those libaries are usually written in C anyway.