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I don't think the Lemmy developers were expecting #RedditBlackout to dump 150,000 users onto their federation in a week. They were probably trucking along with

I don't think the Lemmy developers were expecting #RedditBlackout to dump 150,000 users onto their federation in a week. They were probably trucking along with various feature requests when suddenly performance became an issue this past week.

mvdtnz 3y ago
Where are you finding that number, 150,000? The instance in question has one one hundredth that figure and the Lemmy devs claim 27,000 accounts grand total.
- dragontamer 3y ago
  Lemmy.world is 31k users alone. Beehaw.org is 12.k users (and each of those users at Beehaw.org were manually curated) Maybe 150,000 is wrong, I saw it posted somewhere but I'm not sure what the methodology is. But between Lemmy.world and Beehaw.org we're already at 43k+ users. 27k is a gross underestimate. ------------- EDIT: https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0 https://kbin.social/nodeinfo/2.0 https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy Lemmy-fediverse is claiming 159,000+ users today. EDIT2: kbin link must have been glitched. kbin.social's specific nodeinfo is "only" claiming 35k users, which is still substantial.
  - realitythreek 3y ago
    I agree with your point that whatever the number, they weren’t expecting that surge right now. The actual number is barely relevant.
  - deleted 3y ago
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- dragontamer 3y ago
  > Lemmy devs Programming.dev is _NOT_ the lemmy devs. This is a discussion from https://programmers.dev https://programmers.dev, a totally separate group of people. This is just an administrator who is sharing their Lemmy experiences while talking about Rust and such.