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How will lemmy scale? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by phoneymouse to c/[email protected]

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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/

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Larger instances will have to monetize to stay afloat. I've gone so far as to buy a domain that is very appropriate for a business-oriented Lemmy instance (specifically for job hunting and career development), but don't yet have time or resources to take it to the next level.

[–] psilves1 1 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Who says any instances need to grow?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I said 'afloat', and was specific about larger instances.

[–] psilves1 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why should there be larger instances?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are currently and there inevitably will be. Instances like Lemmy.ml, Lemmy,world, beehaw.org are already large.

[–] psilves1 1 points 1 year ago

Okay and once those grow to the point where they need to monitize to stay afloat people will just switch to other instances

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