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What happens if millions of users migrate over?
There are multiple instances, so people could theoretically be blocked from adding an account on this instance and be required to create an account on another instance. Since it's federated and everyone has access to everything on other servers, it shouldn't be a problem.
Given that every instance sees content from all the others, won't the cost per instance grow with the total number of users? If there are 500M global lemmy users, how much would it cost to run a "small" instance to process that firehose of data?