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How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by s0phia@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I know there's donations and the owners can use their own money, but there's a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.

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[–] Aidinthel@reddthat.com 19 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That sort of thing should be a self-correcting problem to an extent - when performance drops, people will (hopefully) move to other intances. Also, a well-managed instance would stop accepting new members before it go to that point.

[–] roo@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Also, there would be developers watching https://fediverse.observer to see if few registrations are open, but sign-ups are climbing in all open instances. Of course they are going to jump in if there's an opportunity.

[–] small44@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

People will only do that if they can migrate all the past history to a new instance and the syncing issues between instances are fixed

[–] remkit@lemmy.kya.moe 1 points 1 year ago

Until people start donating to instance owners, and instance owners continuously scale up the servers, thus inviting even more people to centralised on the biggest few instances.