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.

If it’s not federated, why Lemmy?