I wanted to post this question in a neutral community and not the specific Lemmy or Piefed ones.

I am curious to learn how resource utilization is comparing in the real world operation of Piefed vs. Lemmy instances, given a similar level of users and user activity? Considering that Piefed is written in Python and Lemmy is written in Rust, I would think that the difference would be significant, but I recall someone mentioning in the past that the main resource constraint for both these platforms would be database-related instead so the language choice wouldn’t have much impact. I’m curious if this is proving correct in the real world as opposed to in theory.

I know that there are a few admins out there who are running both and I would love to hear their thoughts on this.

  • Rimu@piefed.socialEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Yes, it’s tricky. I don’t remember which instance it was but it was one of the smaller lemmy instances with roughly the same MAU as Piefed.social, tho. Not any of the top 6 Lemmy instances.

    It could have been an outlier. Looks like lemmy.mods4ever.com is much more reasonable although that’s a single-user instance so it’s going to be the absolute minimum.