this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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Mastodon is written in RoR, whereas Lemmy's backend is in Rust. It's an order of magnitude faster just by being a compiled language with lighter-weight middleware.
I haven't used Ruby/RoR in half a decade but even in the early 2010's it was memingly slow compared to many alternatives.
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