It sounds dumb to me to switch to an entirely different platform that’s suppose to be a “better” lemmy instead of just contributing to Lemmy and making it better for everyone. I’m sure there would be a good reason to go through all this trouble and I’m pretty sure its ideological (with the lemmy devs being ML)
Took a look at the repository and almost had a stroke.
Emphasis mine. Also fastAPI.
So on the development side, it’s worse, less mature and way less efficient than Lemmy. The repository is also very messy. No complaints if it were a simple student project, but I doubt it’ll hold up for much longer. I just would never personally risk changing a server I admin to that software.
The moderation tools described there seem cool, so Lemmy contributors probably have more useful opinions there.
And on the interface front, by default it looks like the New Reddit interface that privileges image and video posts over link and text posts. That is configurable in Lemmy too, but most server admins or users never mess with that. Not my cup of tea, but some people prefer things like Instagram over things like RSS feeds.
Overall it seems like a fine experiment for ease of implementation of some tools, but anybody jumping ship right now really just dislikes the lemmy.ml instance and the developers.
Python
But I find it very funny that we’ve gone full circle on the “X but written in Rust” thing, now we have Rust systems being rewritten in python.