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Gotta convince some of the tech guys coming over from Reddit to spin up their own Lemmy instances so we can properly be distributed and share the load.
There are 150+ instances listed on the lemmy site. If we somehow managed to get all those instances running on hardware that could handle thousands of users, then we managed to find enough new techie people to get 10x as many instances, then we worked out some way of getting the load shared evenly so the new users didn't all congregate on one instance and you manage to do this without confusing non-techie people about how it works, if all that goes to plan and you get each instance to support 10,000 users - you've now managed to support 15 million reddit users.
Reddit has over 430 million active monthly users. It's just not feasible to do by 1 July, we need to let the community grow organically.
Easy mode button, chooses an instance for you based on load. Non tech people can use that, tech people can do what they want. Though I guess for that you'd need some group to decide which instances are included in that distribution.
Yeah, in theory. In practice you need to explain to users why they are being sent to a seemingly random site, which all have different rules that don't necessarily align with what they are looking for. Plus some have open registrations and some you need to apply.
And then there's Beehaw, actively turning down registrations because they want to foster a certain community (which is their right).
This all leads to a lot of user confusion.
That's why you'd need a group to decide which instances would be included, and they'd ideally have more of a ganeral focus and with similar rules. As far as confusing the user, have the easy mode button tell you in a nice fancy slideshow or something that Lemmy is decentralized, lemmy used instances and this is the site yours is at. You're not completely getting rid of the confusion from non techies, but a quick explanation would probably go a decent ways.
Yeah perhaps have a requirement that to be in the list you need to use the lemmy code of conduct rather than your own, you must have open registrations, and probably some level of no NSFW content or that sort of thing.
I actually had to pay 0.01 monero to join my server. There was a way to join for free too but it would have taken longer
Instance hosts will be understandably wary of investing $$$ in a huge influx that may or may not stick around, too. A more gradual influx is good since it lets people scale up slowly, work out donation streams, and such.
I'm fine even with just the current size of this place, though. Even just beehaw alone. It feels cozy. :)
A lot of those 430 million monthly users on reddit aren't posting or commenting anything I care to see. Most aren't posting or comment at all, just voting. And r/all has never not been a trashfire, so, it can keep being a trashfire somewhere over there where I'm not, at least.