I only know of two FOSS federated alternatives to reddit which is lemmy or kbin.

I think lemmy will scalebmore being written in rust were kbin is written in PHP.

And by scaling I am refering to high user count, high traffic, server resoures, server cost.

  • Killing_Spark@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Without any knowledge on the details of both implementations: scalability has two dimensions, vertical where one server can handle more requests and horizontal where more servers can be added to serve requests. In recent years focus has been put more on the latter and for that the performance of a single node isn’t as important as for the vertical scalability.

      • Killing_Spark@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        That isn’t so much a question of the language. Horizontal scalability is a property of the system you are building. You need to engineer the communication between the individual nodes, you need to make choices on the CAP tryingle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem) and more.

        So rust is already horizontally scalable, it’s just hard to build horizontally, in any language.

        (Sidenote, there is the language Erlang which seems to do a lot of this under the hood, but I have no experience with it so…)