this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They cant take down everyone. Thats the point of all the instances

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

However, it will lead to endless frustrations if one of the biggest instances with the most federated content goes down hard. You can't access or post to federated communities who's home instance is dead, which means the content goes poof. Not a good look for brand new users.

There's a lot of danger in the performance scaling of Lemmy, the developers are going to have one hell of a job on their hands.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Its kind of exciting

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the mastodon devs had the same problem when everyone moved from twitter.