But the new users can join any lemmy server and still interact with everyone, so ideally the load would be distributed throughout all the instances instead of making one of them overloaded.
Yes but even 40k users per instance requires substantial amount of resources right now to keep things not-stuttering. And Apollo has millions of users. So we’d need 200 new instances as big as the largest ones we already have. And that’s assuming activity pub caching is already ironed out. Idk if it is.
That’s a good point! I think we usually hear about millions of users and don’t realize the scale you need to serve the thousands that’d be in each instance…
It’s very much not. Not to handle a tidal wave of users, at least. Servers ain’t cheap, and media hosting ain’t cheaper.
We should expect a bunch of new instances spinning up in the next few days, though. We can shoulder some of the load. And a lot of people are going to show up, kick up some dust about how it’s not Reddit enough, how this button is wrong, how that feature doesn’t work the way they expect, blah blah blah, and then they’ll be back on Reddit.
The retention rate isn’t going to be great. But it will be enough to stimulate strong organic growth going forward.
Yeah, the organic growth is what matters the most I think, it’s the in between times that will be the hardest for the devs. I hope donations and more contributors will make the Fediverse thrive.
But the new users can join any lemmy server and still interact with everyone, so ideally the load would be distributed throughout all the instances instead of making one of them overloaded.
Yes but even 40k users per instance requires substantial amount of resources right now to keep things not-stuttering. And Apollo has millions of users. So we’d need 200 new instances as big as the largest ones we already have. And that’s assuming activity pub caching is already ironed out. Idk if it is.
That’s a good point! I think we usually hear about millions of users and don’t realize the scale you need to serve the thousands that’d be in each instance…
I hope the Fediverse is ready, it will be a hard time for the instance hosts and devs.
It’s very much not. Not to handle a tidal wave of users, at least. Servers ain’t cheap, and media hosting ain’t cheaper.
We should expect a bunch of new instances spinning up in the next few days, though. We can shoulder some of the load. And a lot of people are going to show up, kick up some dust about how it’s not Reddit enough, how this button is wrong, how that feature doesn’t work the way they expect, blah blah blah, and then they’ll be back on Reddit.
The retention rate isn’t going to be great. But it will be enough to stimulate strong organic growth going forward.
Yeah, the organic growth is what matters the most I think, it’s the in between times that will be the hardest for the devs. I hope donations and more contributors will make the Fediverse thrive.