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I haven't dug into the bowels of lemmy, but is there anything to be gained by scaling horizontally?
Probably, but it's significantly more difficult to set up and maintain, and introduces new problems. I'm sure it'll be considered once they reach the limits of what a single node can handle.
I'm fully aware of the operational challenges involved. What I have not looked into (yet) is whether it is even feasible.
Honestly, the operational side doesn't worry me, I can do that in my sleep. Application level issues I am powerless to solve however.
I assume it's for the sake of more freedom. Without admins to make troubling choices like in the case of reddit, lemmy can't be corrupt so easily. I'm quite new to this as well, but from what I've seen, the most lemmy can do is unlink certain instances so they don't show up in your search, but instances may live or die, but the social network as a whole lives on (except if the killed instance housed your account).
They meant horizontally scaling this instance (multiple servers serving the same app)
Oh, my bad. Thanks for the clarification.
I think you have misunderstood my question because I have no idea what you are talking about.
Yeah that was my bad, I thought you meant horizontal scaling utilizing multiple instances.