I know that Lemmy is open source and it can only get better from here on out, but I do wonder if any experts can weigh in whether the foundation is well written? Or are we building on top of 4 years worth of tech debt?

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      From some comments I’ve read, it’s at least in better shape than kbin? A few people expressed interest in helping with that project and then went running for the hills after reading through the code.

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          Mother. Of. God. Did they really write Kbin in PHP?

          I may be talking shit because I’m not a PHP coder, but the times I’ve seen it, it was a nightmare.

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            Which… makes sense. The creator of doesn’t like coding.

            I actually hate programming, but I love solving problems. I really don’t like programming. I built this tool to program less so that I could just reuse code. PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush.

            So PHP it born out of a dislike of coding. In turn the documentation is all over the place and inconsistent.

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              It has become really solid over time.

              But it will always be a mono-threaded and interpreted technology, and therefore never a good choice for a high-scale solution like a Fediverse application.