My claim is admittedly not based on trying it myself. I suppose I should test out friendica and see for myself.

what do screen recording softwares for wayland use under the hood then?

My issue with Friendica is it consumes more resources, making it much more expensive to host, especially at scale.

My issue with Friendica is it consumes more resources, making it much more expensive to host, especially at scale.

My issue with MBin is similar to that of Friendica. It’s more expensive to self-host. Lemmy scales better.

What I am proposing would use the same exact lemmy backend. How would it magically use more resources with the same backend?

What you said is incorrect, the difference in features offered is not the only reason for the difference in resource utilization. Lemmy meme communities have plenty of images going around.

The argument that I want to test is that Lemmy is as up to this task as LemmyBB being a phpBB experience but with a lemmy backend. I am proposing something like that.

The reason not to go with the other alternatives is that lemmy seems to do much better on resource utilization, which would make it much easier to host and scale.

does OBS just do everything with ffmpeg, or does it introduce extra functionality?

Following users can be simulated by the client. Behind the scenes, every user will have their own community, and their personal posts will go there. If you follow the user, the client would make you follow that community behind the scenes.

But I suppose you would need to prevent other users from being able to post there, I did not consider that. Lemmy does not have that kind of permission control. So maybe this is not viable … hmm

You’re right that lemmy never intended to be a Facebook mock-up (and I hope my post did not seem to allude to that), but I was wondering if it could be made to be so by changing only the client but keeping the rest intact.

My limited knowledge makes me think that lemmy is easier to host, consuming less resources in general, hence why I want to consider it first. But I could be wrong.