• Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      The admins on many instances already went through an upgrade cycle about two weeks ago to account for the first influx of ex-redditors.

      Some of them may already be at their maximum ability/affordability.

      I think others in the thread are correct that moving to different instances will probably help reduce some of the overhead that’s slowing things down for many.

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      1 year ago

      Lemmy’s would benefit from scaling horizontally (more instances) instead of vertically (bigger instances)

      • AllGoesUpMustGoDown@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Not necessarily. New users gravitate towards established, large instances, such as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Expanding horizontally would just create a few laggy and overflowing instances, and a bunch of tiny instances no one uses.

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          1 year ago

          And once the devs can’t maintain server costs, they should shut down new registrations.

          There’s no need to charge for servers