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Lemmy.world active users is tapering off while other servers are gaining serious traction. (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Seems to me the fear of overloading one instance over another will not happen after all.

But I do hope the Threadiverse can hit 500,000 consistent active users by the end of summer.

Give me that hopium guys! 💉

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Think that's more or less correct, but regarding @[email protected]'s question about overloading, I think that it may affect folks even on other instances if Lemmy.world's overloading affects its response time to other servers attempting to sync with it.

E.g. Lemmy.world is bogged down -> Lemm.ee tries to sync posts/comments from .world -> .world takes a longer time to fulfill the request -> Lemm.ee sees older posts/comments for awhile until .world catches up to requests.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Glad to hear I'm not totally off the mark. I wonder then if instance-to-instance transactions would cause less overall congestion than local user traffic in such cases.

For example, if there are 25,000 users spread across 5 instances (with some overlap in community participation), would the instance-to-instance transactions needed to facilitate these users result in less of a performance hit than having all 25,000 users on the same instance? I don't know nearly enough about databases to make an educated guess.