I’ve gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

… and I can’t access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

  • Saint of Illusion@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    1 year ago

    I was thinking if an instance owner cannot afford to keep upgrading servers, it could close its doors to new registrations. This will create a need for more instances and users will be more evenly distributed.

    • cmeerw@programming.devEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      But it’s my understanding that resource usage will keep increasing even if you keep the number of users constant on a server (as more content is posted in the communities that users are subscribed to, and that content needs to be synced and stored).

      • the_inebriati@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        That’s adding storage, which is comparatively cheap.

        For more simultaneous users, you need more CPU/RAM. That’s where the monthly cost shoots up fast.