How will lemmy scale?

posted 1 year ago

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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iso@lemmy.com.tr

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1 year ago

Since Mastodon is using ActivityPub too. How it worked after Elon?

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Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml

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1 year ago

Mastodon is a couple years older than Lemmy, it was already a fairly mature product. People are thinking Lemmy is badly coded but we’re all using a beta product with no user limits.

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