It seems to make a LOT of calls to other servers. Its almost constantly pinging other servers asking for updates.
It gets de-federated almost instantly from popular instances. Which kinda sucks.
It uses up quite a bit of CPU compared to other federated applications.
Subscribing to instances seems to work most of the time, but sometimes it just errors out and I have to re-do it.

Im pretty sure if I update my version to the newest version of lemmy I may get around 2/4 but even when I used a fairly new dockerized version of lemmy, it seemed like it was calling a LOT of servers/using a lot of CPU for something I would like to have it update maybe once an hour or so.

Essentially im looking for something like GoToSocial is to Mastodon but for lemmy. Hope that makes sense.

Is there anything like that out there? Piefed maybe?

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[–] Cochise 20 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Some people report less server load with Piefed.

[–] mesamunefire@lemmy.world 14 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Yeah I need to take another look at piefed. Thanks for the read.

But man the best part is the resources it consumes. Let me remind you that Lemmy puts a load of 12 on the server, when I turn off Lemmy the load with the other 13 web services running on the server is 0.5 and when I turn on PieFed the load is 1.

Im also looking for the same thing.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 13 points 2 weeks ago

threaded-discussion server products require far more resources than a simple mastodon, twitter like server. if you want to federate with the threadiverse its going to be resource intensive.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

These may help:-)

Comparing network utilization of Lemmy, Kbin and PieFed

PieFed, a FOSS Feed Aggregator alternative to Lemmy, but faster

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

First link at least is wildly over-claiming the difference. The data they describe is all cached in the browser and occurs once. PieFed uses ActivityPub, so network differences are moot since the same data transfers.

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It seems to make a LOT of calls to other servers. Its almost constantly pinging other servers asking for updates.

The fediverse works the other way around: other instances push activities to yours. If you have a lot of subcriptions to large communities like !technology@lemmy.world it will indeed receive a lot of activities.

It gets de-federated almost instantly from popular instances. Which kinda sucks.

Mine's not been defederated from anywhere, not even Beehaw

It uses up quite a bit of CPU compared to other federated applications.

It definitely uses a fair bit of CPU but it is ingesting a fair amount of data, but still not a ton either:

Lemmy resource usage

Although I do hear PieFed is a lot lighter.

Subscribing to instances seems to work most of the time, but sometimes it just errors out and I have to re-do it.

That settled for me after a week or so of running mine. My subscriptions always go through.

[–] michael@lemmy.chrisco.me 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What version are you running? Im currently running 0.18.2 (mostly because thats what yunohost supports).

[–] Max_P@lemmy.max-p.me 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Latest (0.19.8). 0.18 is very old, over a year old, later versions dealt with a lot of scaling/performance problems.

That sounds very typical of YunoHost to have wildly outdated software

[–] michael@lemmy.chrisco.me 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah it's all community based. And like Debian super stable. But the issue with that is updates take a very long time.