If it's not federated, why Lemmy?
We're looking for a Community Management platform that has the features and usability of Reddit. Unfortunately we are not experts in Community Management tools, so are doing analysis a bit blindly.
We initially liked Discourse, as it is a pretty common open-source platform for online forums. However after standing up a proof of concept we are now highly skeptical that it scales horizontally enough for our needs...the concept of "infinite user-created sub-reddits" are an absolute must-have, and has been the major sticking point on the tools we have reviewed and piloted so far (including a number of proprietary non-open source options). Discourse themselves told us to limit the number of Categories that should be used, so my sense is that this is an inherent architectural limitation that can't be overcome without significant investment and branching of the code base. Comment voting is also a must-have, as well as a few other things. We are finding that these seem to be strengths of Lemmy and other Reddit-style platforms. And Lemmy seems to be the most popular...with the most community support. However if there is another platform that might better option, I'm open to it.
Meaning no offense to Lemmy devs, Lemmy still has some things to iron out until they can safely say "we're at version 1.0" - it's in beta, being battle tested as we speak, and it's not afraid to push feature breaking changes. For example, the latest version, 0.18, fixed a very annoying bug that pushed new posts in real-time (websockets) when using the web interface, but disabled captcha. Jerboa, the main Android client, pushed an update that removed compatibility with Lemmy below 0.18. lemmy.world, who competes with lemmy.ml for the first two instances by number of users, refused to upgrade to 0.18 because it needs captcha to ward off bots - now you can't use Jerboa with lemmy.world, and the web interface has the bug with new posts. So, all this rant should give you the idea that Lemmy is far from production ready, and it's not a desirable choice, yet.
I've been the engineering manager for a Twitch clone that got sold for the tech part a couple of years ago - check your DM, sent a personal link, you can use the email there if you want me to help.
I don’t think you’re looking for architects or developers if you just want to run an instance. Those would be for developing custom features for Lemmy. I believe you are looking for a Cloud Engineer.
You're right...however in a perfect world I'm looking for more of a high-end generalist that can do it all, as I definitely expect that development will be necessary. If there aren't any proverbial "purple squirrels" out there that can (or want) to do both though, then we'll need to separate the roles and hire multiple.
Actually he needs a developer to disable federation. It's on be l by default and to my knowledge there is no way to disable it.
There are two config options that control this:
Federation is disabled by default, and needs to be enabled either through the online admin panel or directly through the config.json file.
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