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Why do people host Lemmy instances and how do they pay for them? (lemm.ee)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
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[โ€“] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I tried out my own, one person instance, and I had a hard time getting comments to pull in. I would have to browse to the original instance to view all of the comments. Have you found a good way to overcome that?

I switched back to a more public instance just because I found the process of going out to view the content, back to my own instance if I wanted to comment, then back to the original again to keep reading the discussion very tedious.

Being on a more populated server seems to give most if not all of the comments directly.

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  • [โ€“] 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    When you first subscribe to a community it only pulls in the last 20 or so posts and I think a limited amount of comments, and then everything going forward. This seems to be a common point of confusion for a lot of instance admins.

    Presumably this is to prevent a possible DDoS/performance failure vector as it would be trivial to setup a large swarm of instances on tiny VM's and then simultaneously start hitting massive communities from a single instance and requesting a large body of historical content.

    Edit: Also when you first setup and start subscribing to a large number of instances, this initiates a LOT of communication and database writes. Lemmy still has some performance bottlenecks. Once everything is initially synced and settled it runs fine. I have a friend running their instance on a $5 Linode instance that only has 1vCPU and 1GB of RAM without any issues, and they're hosting users.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 3 years ago

    I ran mine for a couple weeks, and communities I'd been subscribed to from day 1 were still missing most comments on the posts unless I clicked through to their page. Maybe there was something funky with my install, but I used Lemmy's ansible scripts to deploy so I don't know what else I could do.

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