I already get rate-limited like crazy on lemmy and there are only like 60,000 users on my instance. Is each instance really just one server or are there multiple containers running across several hosts? I’m concerned that federation will mean an inconsistent user experience. Some instances many be beefy, others will be under resourced… so the average person might think Lemmy overall is slow or error-prone.

Reddit has millions of users. How the hell is this going to scale? Does anyone have any information about Lemmy’s DB and architecture?

I found this post about Reddit’s DB from 2012. Not sure if Lemmy has a similar approach to ensure speed and reliability as the user base and traffic grows.

https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/

  • ArtemisEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Or capping their users at a sustainable amount. We may see these original slew of instances become the OGs, only opening for new users when MAUs drop past a certain threshold. Won’t really negatively impact the fediverse cause others can spin up new instances when demand… demands so lol

    • HobbitFoot @thelemmy.clubEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think it is the users that are the issue, but the subs. If a sub gets busy enough, are the server admins going to force the sub to go private? Is a sub going to splinter across several other instances, each vying to be the true successor?