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There is a mention of WebSockets to each user — could someone verify whether that is true or not? As that would be an absolute overkill, hell I see no reason to use Websockets besides online games, and collab tools where short latency is a requirement. A reddit clone is none of those.

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Try logging in programming.dev and check your network tab.

You will see the request being sent as a websocket. The lemmy author implemented lemmy so as to see how fast you can get the site working. Inferno, Rust, WebSockets. He probably didnt have expect the scaling issues that come with it.

Anyways, I am happy the site exists. Kudos! Looking towards better implementation in the next release

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