Hypothetically, if all lemmy users were on instances of a very small number (< 20), would this be better or worse for scaling?

Cyclohexane · 2 years ago

Hypothetically, if all lemmy users were on instances of a very small number (< 20), would this be better or worse for scaling?

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

At the same time, don’t smaller instances mean that they generally are making less copies of remote posts? Fewer users means that they’ll only be subscribed / viewing a few posts.

ᗪIᐯEᖇGEᑎTᕼᗩᖇᗰOᑎIᑕᔕ · 2 years ago

Still, all posts of any subscribed-to community (and any of their votes, which is the biggest issue atm) need to be pushed to yet another instance. IIRC this is how a feed works.