Isn't each instance copy the data (posts and comments) from all other instances? This will scale infinitely which means each self hosted instance needs to be upgraded periodically as the userbase grows. Which will cost money
well if you can't do anything about it, there's no point to worry. Just relax or do other things
This is called Tower of Hanoi problem, usually introduced as main task when learning about recursion in programming
It's only two days, and their revenue mostly come from ads that most likely paid based on contract. So I also don't think it will affect their revenue
A forum like reddit but needs invite to register, I think it already exist since past few years
Interesting, I'm new on Lemmy (and fediverse itself), but when you said server does it means the backend that handles frontend traffic or database that stores all the data? Seems the next optimization step is distributing the traffic to multiple servers.
Also (again I don't know about the lemmy system itself), maybe you can get away with just upgrading CPU cores only or RAM only (depends on what bottlenecking the system). From my experience, the RAM requirement is scaling slower compared to CPU
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