Getting an 521 error earlier today and now it’s taking forever to load.
There’s a reason we didn’t go with kbin. For one, it uses PHP. Two, I see it as more alpha grade software compared to Lemmy, which I see as more beta software. They even say that Federation is a WIP on their docs.
Anything PHP I used always scaled horribly. And it makes sense with it being an interpreted language vs Rust which Lemmy uses.
Lemmy currently has a bit of a scaling issue too, mostly because of DB queries being implemented in such a way where they’re slow and blocking. The maintainers are currently focusing on that from what I can tell.
Yeah the front end looks neat at a glance but the more I learn about it the more I’m considering stay away from it at least in its current state. It’s still super early into development and I’m not a big fan of PHP either.
Also, that instance is using Cloudflare. Which automatically makes it a privacy nightmare from the get-go. We don’t use Cloudflare because they’re a reverse proxy that MiTMs your connection, meaning that anything that travels to and from our server is unencrypted on their node, and we would get banned pretty quick what with the content that we host anyways.
They claim that they don’t hold onto that data, but you never know. It’s their servers and they can do whatever they want and justify it by using EULA weasel words
