The idea legitimately creeps me out for reasons I can't explain.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/06/what-the-night-sky-would-look-like-if-the-other-planets-were-as-close-as-the-moon/277247/

I at least modify the layout Windows to be more like 7.

Or maybe nonprofit organizations. Though I'm having a harder time imagining why they'd need a social network site, especially if it's federated with our shit posting "sublemmies" or whatever we're calling them here.

I noticed you talked about the load balancer being a person. Sounds like it'd be better if it was a bot. They just see which pool is currently the emptiest and put them there, right?

Although you seem to be suggesting live instance swapping. Which might be possible in the future. Right now appears to be tied to registration.

I'm not sure I'm following.

Wouldn't this load balancer be swapping the user's current instance user420@lemmy.world may suddenly become user420@lemm.ee?

Or more like multiple servers within the same umbrella instance? User420@lemmy.world, User420@lemmy.world1, User420@lemmy.world2, User420@lemmy.world3.

Apologies, while I think myself fairly tech savvy, development and networking is still a bit out of reach.

Unfortunately, the reality is that it may become necessary.

Donations can be a saving grace if enough people donate regularly. But such is dependent on people's willingness, their own financial stability, and how stressed servers are (how much it'll cost to upgrade and/or maintain infrastructure.)

It's great if it's viable. Means there's less outside influence. But that's if.

As far as I'm aware, Wikipedia has been able to maintain it purely off donations. But I'm not sure if Lemmy could.

Maybe? One thing Lemmy does have going for it is that the majority of users seem to be aware how... Fragile? the fediverses can be. There's arguably more passion behind the users and maybe willing to throw support out.

But hard to say.

6k now.

Tell me about this "Digg." It sounds so familiar, but I don't think I actually ever used anything called Digg.

Always some going off in early July and late June.

Just a Jaws ride from when I was 6.

Also slime.

Do you think Lemmy knows what a "JPEG" is? It just wants a picture of a god dang hotdog.

Weird, thought I was on this account when I made the comment.