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Just stop - posted by u/IcedRaktajino (thelemmy.club)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by to c/fedimemes@feddit.uk
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Beyond ridiculous.

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[–] 1 point 4 months ago (3 children)

Actually doesnt this raise scalability issues concern overall? Say if user count naturally increase x100 tomorrow.

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Technically speaking, yeah.

    But the instances that run on donations are more likely to get donations to cover the growing hosting costs from a 100x increase in real users as opposed to one bot spammer spewing out 100+ user's worth of content each month. Ideally, that 100x increase won't be concentrated on a single instance and will be spread out among many instances.

    While the amount of content from such an increase would be the same, the posting patterns are more organic from real users compared to the indiscriminate torrent coming from people running bots to repost everything from Reddit. That allows for a lot more granular management of resources.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago (1 child)

    But won't you need to fetch the content that's posted on other instance in the end, even if distributed?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 4 months ago

    Yes

    While the amount of content from such an increase would be the same, the posting patterns are more organic from real users compared to the indiscriminate torrent coming from people running bots to repost everything from Reddit. That allows for a lot more granular management of resources.

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