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.

  • cmeerw@programming.dev
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    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).

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      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.