I'm pretty new to the fediverse, and I find the idea amazing. But one thing concerns me though. How will server owners be able to afford to run servers with massive amounts of data coming through them? Theoretically speaking, if a Reddit migration were to happen how would server upkeep costs look like?

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[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

How is it possible to donate?

[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Opencollective has a page. Recurring donations are usually more useful than one-time, but both are excellent.

[–] acchariya@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Just reading through this it seems crazy to me that lemmy.world is being scaled vertically, is there something about how it works that prevents horizontal scaling (like, load balancing across a number of servers all using the same db)?

[–] Forkk@forkk.me 1 points 2 years ago

As far as I can tell, the software just wasn't built with that in mind, so I would expect some kind of bugs or weird behavior like race conditions, etc. Nothing is stopping anyone from trying it to see what happens though I guess.

[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I am trying to start a project with a fairly ambitious goal, trying to take load off the central instance to reduce hosting costs (whether that comes in the form of a single powerful server or multiples pointed at the same DB). It's still in early form, but the core (trying to make it so running a Lemmy node is not too punishing on the main instance server) is an attempt to do the engineering to help accomplish exactly this.

[–] cashews_win@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Why do you have a tick next to your name?

[–] mo_ztt@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I subscribed to Ruud's Patreon, and it had a note that part of the benefits at the $8/month tier is you now get a checkmark next to your name (* if you go and edit your name to have a check mark next to it). I obeyed, partly because that's funny to me and partly in the hopes that more people subscribe. I've seen a couple other people with it as well.