Good point, if supporting JS disabled browsing is a goal, SSR is a must.
re languages If doing SSR, language matters. If doing CSR, statically generating site, it matters less. For example, there are more hosting options for PHP than Rust. There are even more hosting options for static assets (eg CDN).
The power of Social Media is the community. Coupling the UI with Rust seems like it would prevent the larger community from contributing. I’m interested in both web and Rust, but have zero interest learning a Rust JSX variant.
Why not static site? Could have a themes folder where admins could drop their static themes. Also, would allow admins to host markup and Lemmy API on different hosts.
I’ve always seen these self hosted S3 API compatible services as something a developer would use for testing.
Could maybe simplify the solution with https://syncthing.net/ or https://restic.net/ for self hosted backups.