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How is lemmyworld so stable?
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I'm not an admin, but have followed the sizing discussions around the lemmyverse as closely as I can from my position of lacking first-hand knowledge:
lemmy.ml
is the biggest instance by user count, but runs on incredibly modest 8-cpu hardware. Their cloud provider doesn't provide any easy scale up options for them, so they can't trivially restart on a bigger VM with their db and disk in place. I suspect this means that instance is going to suffer for a bit as they figure out what to do next.lemmy.world
on the other hand was running on a box at least twice as big aslemmy.ml
at last count, and I believe they can go quite a bit bigger if they need to.lemmy.world
admins also runmastodon.world
and lived through the twitterpocalypse, seeing peak user registrations rates of 4k per hour. So this is not their first rodeo in terms of explosive growth, I'm sure that experience gives them some tricks up their sleeve.I'm surprised that
sh.itjust.works
isn't growing faster. They also have a hefty hardware setup and seemingly the technical admins to handle big user counts. I wonder if it's a branding problem, wherelemmy.world
sounds inviting and plausibly serious wheresh.itjust.works
sounds like clowntown even though it's run by a capable and serious team.I hope lemmy.ml can upgrade at some point. A lot of the slowness I'm running into is trying to browse/discovery communities that happen to live on that instance.