I’ve gone and made accounts of a handful of Lemmy instances, all of them larger, more popular ones.

… and I can’t access any of them directly today, likely due to the influx of users from Reddit.

Programming.dev is alive and well though.

    • Saint of Illusion
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      121 year ago

      I was thinking if an instance owner cannot afford to keep upgrading servers, it could close its doors to new registrations. This will create a need for more instances and users will be more evenly distributed.

      • @cmeerw@programming.dev
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        61 year ago

        But it’s my understanding that resource usage will keep increasing even if you keep the number of users constant on a server (as more content is posted in the communities that users are subscribed to, and that content needs to be synced and stored).

        • @the_inebriati@lemmy.world
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          41 year ago

          That’s adding storage, which is comparatively cheap.

          For more simultaneous users, you need more CPU/RAM. That’s where the monthly cost shoots up fast.

    • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏
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      111 year ago

      If anything, this is the month where we’ll find out… A lot of medium/large instances have made the jump to dedi servers and keeping those up isn’t cheap