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How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 1 year ago by s0phia to c/[email protected]

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I know there's donations and the owners can use their own money, but there's a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

Most instances will hit a hard cap where the user support can't scale anymore. Admins will have to close sign-ups and force new users to other instances to distribute the load. That's the point of federation.

The issue is admins do not yet know where the limits are, and Lemmy still needs a lot more backend optimization work.