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How will lemmy scale? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] 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] 12 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Poorly. Lemmy will scale poorly.

I won't be surprised if the larger instances start locking down more as a way to sustain themselves, like restricting communities or only allowing text posts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Sometimes you have just to accommodate to the situation and keep going until it settles down. The error I think here is thinking something can’t have flaws and issues, even more if it’s not behind a corporations. And no one wants corporations.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (8 children)

It isn't about accommodating to the situation, but planning for long term growth.

Right now, instances of Lemmy don't have any way to fund server costs other than asking for donations. Outside of Wikipedia, that isn't a sustainable business model. How is Lemmy supposed to survive if, every time a sub gains critical mass, it shuts down?

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

It is not like any other social network has become sustainable business. Reddit, Twitter, YouTube, FB all are net losers with all trials with and selling user data.

We can safely say that after almost 20 we still don't have sustainable business model for soc networks.

Let's try with donations.

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

Facebook makes money and YouTube seems to do ok enough with its Vevo contract.

Reddit seemed like it was trying to build itself to be something that it wasn't; I believe that Reddit hasn't made money mainly due to leadership.

Twitter should have gone with the Craigslist model to make a profit, but a lot of decisions pre and post Musk made that impossible.

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