The admins on many instances already went through an upgrade cycle about two weeks ago to account for the first influx of ex-redditors.
Some of them may already be at their maximum ability/affordability.
I think others in the thread are correct that moving to different instances will probably help reduce some of the overhead that’s slowing things down for many.
I agree, the thing is I already have an account on different instances. But, I have to subscribe to the communities I like all over again. If there was way by which if we could migrate our profile, it would be great IMO.
I hope they roll it out soon because there will be a lot of people coming in and it would also ease out the process.
I really want Lemmy to work. So many devs, so many people working together really makes me want Lemmy to be successful, even if it is at a small scale.
Not necessarily. New users gravitate towards established, large instances, such as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Expanding horizontally would just create a few laggy and overflowing instances, and a bunch of tiny instances no one uses.
I hope the admins upgrade the servers. :/
The admins on many instances already went through an upgrade cycle about two weeks ago to account for the first influx of ex-redditors.
Some of them may already be at their maximum ability/affordability.
I think others in the thread are correct that moving to different instances will probably help reduce some of the overhead that’s slowing things down for many.
I agree, the thing is I already have an account on different instances. But, I have to subscribe to the communities I like all over again. If there was way by which if we could migrate our profile, it would be great IMO.
I’m pretty sure an account migration tool is on the roadmap, but it may take a while. I’m waiting for that before I make different accounts.
I hope they roll it out soon because there will be a lot of people coming in and it would also ease out the process.
I really want Lemmy to work. So many devs, so many people working together really makes me want Lemmy to be successful, even if it is at a small scale.
Donate!
You gotta give.
A Lot of people give
You gotta give.
Lemmy’s would benefit from scaling horizontally (more instances) instead of vertically (bigger instances)
Not necessarily. New users gravitate towards established, large instances, such as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Expanding horizontally would just create a few laggy and overflowing instances, and a bunch of tiny instances no one uses.
And once the devs can’t maintain server costs, they should shut down new registrations.
There’s no need to charge for servers
Well, you have a point. Problem would be to get users to use the smaller instances.