Admin of globe.pub, a community for travelers. Also online at mplewis.com.

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  • 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.