sophsJul 6, 2023

How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big?

https://lemmy.world/post/1113268

How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big? - Lemmy.world

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.

Show threadAidinthel
That sort of thing should be a self-correcting problem to an extent - when performance drops, people will (hopefully) move to other intances. Also, a well-managed instance would stop accepting new members before it go to that point.
Jul 6, 2023 at 9:57pmWeb
Show threadrooJul 6, 2023
Also, there would be developers watching fediverse.observer to see if few registrations are open, but sign-ups are climbing in all open instances. Of course they are going to jump in if there’s an opportunity.
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Show threadsmall44Jul 6, 2023
People will only do that if they can migrate all the past history to a new instance and the syncing issues between instances are fixed