I already get rate-limited like crazy on lemmy and there are only like 60,000 users on my instance. Is each instance really just one server or are there multiple containers running across several hosts? I’m concerned that federation will mean an inconsistent user experience. Some instances many be beefy, others will be under resourced… so the average person might think Lemmy overall is slow or error-prone.

Reddit has millions of users. How the hell is this going to scale? Does anyone have any information about Lemmy’s DB and architecture?

I found this post about Reddit’s DB from 2012. Not sure if Lemmy has a similar approach to ensure speed and reliability as the user base and traffic grows.

https://kevin.burke.dev/kevin/reddits-database-has-two-tables/

  • Netto Hikari@social.fossware.spaceEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Thanks for the breakdown. I was aware of most of the issues with Lemmy. I noticed the weird layout of the database, so yeah…

    My database question however was in regards to Reddit, not Lemmy. Why use a relational database (“tables”) if you’re going to disregard most of the things a relational database does anyway… The “everything is a thing” line was why I questioned myself why Reddit wouldn’t use something like MongoDB instead.