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/
Facebook makes money and YouTube seems to do ok enough with its Vevo contract.
Reddit seemed like it was trying to build itself to be something that it wasn’t; I believe that Reddit hasn’t made money mainly due to leadership.
Twitter should have gone with the Craigslist model to make a profit, but a lot of decisions pre and post Musk made that impossible.