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Well, now I know about Lemmy. Streisand effect.

• RosanaAnaDana 3y ago
  Lemmys ok. It needs more users to be useful. I don't think the critical threshold is very high.
  • jsnell 3y ago
    It clearly can't handle more users, so that's a bit of a problem.
    • hkt 3y ago
      It is a federated piece of software with an instance whose admins clearly didn't realise they were going to get the HN hug of death and an exodus of reddit users today. The application's architecture, as I understand it, is largely horizontally scalable but I'd guess its operations team for the main instance either doesn't have a bottomless pit of money, or hasn't had to deal with user floods of this scale before. In other words: give them a break.
    • RosanaAnaDana 3y ago
      Its federated. If you have a problem with that, host an instance.
    • sudosysgen 3y ago
      The software is fine, it can handle a few thousand active simultaneous connections on a fairly standard machine, and is indefinitely horizontally scalable (limited of course by whatever DB you use). I'm pretty sure the admins just haven't specced it for more than the low loads they normally get.
      • shagie 3y ago
        ... Imagine if Apollo was able to just flip a switch and point it at Lemmy with 2.3k r/s. Who's gonna pay that server bill?
        • sudosysgen 3y ago
          That should be within what it can scale to with donation-level support, given some optimization. As it is right now, there are live updates via websockets for all active users, some queries can be optimized dramatically, and there is no sharding - the running costs are 30EUR/month. With a few thousand a month and some smart optimization, 2k requests/s is not out of the realm of possibility.
• cruano 3y ago
  This post is from them, and they were banned for spamming not "advocating", so not Streisand effect just your regular spam.