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Burn out on Lemmy? (aussie.zone)
submitted 7 hours ago* by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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In the last week I have seen solar punk go down and aussie.zone owner talk about stepping away.

I've not seen two places down at once that has made it to my feed in the last 3 years.

Is the self hosting aspect of lemmy a detriment to the entire environment? Admins getting burnt out or the costs becoming too high is absolutely an issue.

I know this is kind of rambling but what would happen to Lemmy if the major hosters all went down, and we all spun up our own personal services?

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[–] 11 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

The developers have made it clear that Lemmy isn't designed to scale and that has been made apparent in their design philosophy and what they focus on.

Also, users minimize the work that it takes to moderate a decently sized community or administer an instance. The design philosophy bakes in Reddit's role hierarchy while trying to present Lemmy as being more open and free.

Beehaw admins pointed out the design issues a while ago and at one point considered building its own backend to replace Lemmy for their use.

Sadly, building a large community isn't just a technical issue.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 hours ago (1 child)

    Isn’t Lemmy capable of being scaled horizontally now? Of course the DB could still be a bottle neck if it doesn’t work with something horizontally scalable like Citus, Cockroach or Yugabyte (or if the schema doesn’t lend itself towards sharding).

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