I’ve been considering launching a Lemmy server for a community lately, but am now back exploring piefed with the Lemm.ee shutdown.

I’ve read that Lemmy for some has been quite resource intensive and piefed was much easier on CPU and RAM. Is anyone able to share some metrics, say, for this server for reference?

It looks like documentation is better for piefed and the mod tools are better. I like the topics organization.

Downside is that the interstellar app didn’t seem to have that feature built in.

Also, my phone really does not like the word piefed lol.

But I’m starting to consider whether to trim a piefed instance instead of Lemmy. Is there anything I should know ahead of time? Such as unexpected gotchas or federation issues with Lemmy?

  • hitagi@ani.social
    13·
    4 days ago

    My Piefed testing instance only has two users so it’s hard to make a comparison with my Lemmy instance which has 180 monthly active users.

    This is what my Lemmy instance looks like (180 monthly active users):

    And my PieFed instance (2 users):

    Again, not a fair comparison at all but I think they’re both pretty efficient with CPU/RAM. Postgres will eat as much RAM as you give it. I noticed that Lemmy will spike CPU every hour. On the other hand, PieFed spikes every time you reload the page but I don’t have any caching for PieFed enabled yet.

    Anyway, I think another big concern in terms of resource usage is how big the DB grows. Technically, it grows infinitely. PieFed has this really nice feature that deletes old stuff over time per community (or that’s how I understand it at least) which is pretty nice:

    • underline960@sh.itjust.works
      4·
      3 days ago

      PieFed has this really nice feature that deletes old stuff over time per community

      On the one hand, that’s a cool feature and I can see how this could keep storage costs down.

      On the other hand, access to old conversations is one of the main appeals of forums. If I knew my posts were guaranteed to disappear after X days, I’d reconsider posting there at all.

      • Rimu@piefed.socialMEnglish
        4·
        3 days ago

        The instance admin can set it to different values on different communities. For example on piefed.social all the meme communities are set to either 6 months or 1 year. Other instances might have different settings.

      • hitagi@ani.social
        6·
        3 days ago

        I think it’s only the local copy. I could apply this setting to remote communities. It would be nice if Lemmy/Piefed/Mbin could fetch old remote posts on-demand instead of always keeping a copy of it.