• psilves1@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

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

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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