eu8@lemmy.worldtoShowerthoughts@lemmy.world•Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performanceEnglish
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1 year agoReddit’s database was pretty poorly designed. They designed it to be really flexible so they could make changes easily early on, but it was highly inefficient. I don’t know if it’s still like that, but the old website’s source code is public and it is very inefficient.
The real problem was always a lack of alternatives imo. A “protest” can’t work on the website you’re literally using. What should have happened is those people all moved to another platform, but there isn’t one. There isn’t one canonical alternative to reddit, so they had to “protest” there.