That is, in theory. In practice, it can make a big difference. Source: Worked professionally with large services built in Python and Rust.

Sure, but they will not replace hardware and set up remote access for you, which seems like this would have been required in this case.

For regular users there is not a huge difference, but the web-interface is significantly faster and you can subscribe to topics that combine multiple communities. The disadvantage is less mobile app support. Right now only Interstellar supports Piefed.

The real advantage is for moderators and admins, as the Piefed developers actually listened to community feedback and implemented a lot of nice moderation features that require bots or annoying work-arounds on Lemmy.

And there are a few technical differences that make Piefed easier to administrate and troubleshoot from a sysadmin perspective.

Yes, I also suspect that at a certain scale it would make a difference, but with a single Postgres database and no advanced clustering or so, the real-life performance metrics of a medium sized Lemmy instance strongly point to Postgres being the bottleneck and not the Python or Rust codebase of the rest of the software.

"unforseen hardware failure"

somebody didn't check their backups!

The backups are most likely fine

yes, that's why it's been down for this long...

Slrpnk.net is unexpectatly back online 🥳

Time to come back, it is working again. Lucky break