• Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The admins on many instances already went through an upgrade cycle about two weeks ago to account for the first influx of ex-redditors.

      Some of them may already be at their maximum ability/affordability.

      I think others in the thread are correct that moving to different instances will probably help reduce some of the overhead that’s slowing things down for many.

    • psilves1@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Lemmy’s would benefit from scaling horizontally (more instances) instead of vertically (bigger instances)

      • AllGoesUpMustGoDown@lemmy.world
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        Not necessarily. New users gravitate towards established, large instances, such as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Expanding horizontally would just create a few laggy and overflowing instances, and a bunch of tiny instances no one uses.

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          And once the devs can’t maintain server costs, they should shut down new registrations.

          There’s no need to charge for servers

    • krische@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The software industry has gotten so much better at designing and operating web apps that can scale quickly.

  • borlax@lemmy.borlax.com
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    More people need to learn what federation means instead of just saying “oh resdit2.0” and signing up for the flagship server.

  • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Apparantly, I don’t exist on some instances. And a comment I submitted earlier didn’t federate. Does anyone see this comment?

  • Lee Duna@lemmy.nz
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    Well that’s the reason I didn’t create a lemmy account on popular instances 😆

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    I hope people won’t get scared away from Lemmy just because of server issues, all this traffic means there are lots of new users coming in and I wish they all stay.

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      I also love it when my servers are overloaded with new content and users looking just to have fun and relax for a change. Or choke my girl whatever.

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    This is where the Fediverse gets tested. Without a big corporate budget to bring extra servers online on a whim, balancing load during rushes is going to be difficult.

    Then again, Reddit servers went down a lot and they’re big and corporate.

  • AnnihilatronV9000@lemmy.tf
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    Ive tried and failed to sign up to lemmy.world over the course of a week lmao. At least there’s plenty of other places to go out there

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      That’s the beauty of the fediverse. You’ll be with us no matter the instance plus, the lack of karma means making a new account on another instance is a tiny inconvenience. :) i likes it here. like we’re all in a big pot of stew with no chef to fuck it up. looking at you SPEZ… dickhead

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          It’s near the same but the important distinction is that your user doesnt accrue or lose points. Just comments and posts have a score, not your profile. This should disincentivize karma whoring.