Yes I can only imagine that some of these servers have definitely been getting the hug of death. Though that the good thing with them not all being monolithic. I remember seeing the astonished posts earlier this week when Lemmy.world had grown 10 times its previous size in just a few days and was near around 20,000 users. We’re now five times beyond that. And not stopping yet. That sort of growth isn’t sustainable but damn well fun to see.
Yeah, I am kinda worried about that. This whole Fediverse thing needed to be an open secret that grew in dribs and drabs, considering that it’s basically user-hosted. Explosive growth already caused a lot of grief for Beehaw. Things across the Fediverse stay working for now because a small army of working professional sysadmins are running large instances for kicks.
I was kinda hoping that all the cool kids acting like everything here was dumb would keep the growth sustainable but I get the impression that we’re all too old to care what the cool kids think.
We’re all thiiiis close to talking about our dividend portfolios n shit. Somebody’s gonna fuck around and start a thread about shitty knees and that thing’s gonna run for days.
If everyone can be all comfy with letting Twitch streamers have $5 a month just because, then it might be time to cough up for your social media, too. Ain’t no VC funding propping the Fediverse up. It’s not even propping up Reddit anymore. Jerome say no more free moneys, go buy a bond, and start a business that makes actual profit.
This is probably a good time to bring up that the Fediverse system seems designed around not one central server, but an endless chain of tiny user-hosted servers (instances), all interlinked together to create one community. Like the OLD days, but the software is a lot more seamless. This is what webrings look like now after 20 years of community development.
So if you were ever interested in hosting your own thing, just enough instance for you and 100 buddies, it’s something to look into. There’s a cottage industry of cloud providers who already understand what you’d be up to, no need to run the server yourself unless you want to. Digital Ocean is the suggestion I got from Byron Miller who is running Universidon. They’ve been doing well for small Masto instances. Of course Byron is one of those “army of sysadmins” guys so he’s rolling his own.
That is the sustainable model for this place, so the more it acts like the commercial socials, concentrating traffic in large instances, the more unsustainable it will get. Things like private instances are okay for a reason.
Yes I can only imagine that some of these servers have definitely been getting the hug of death. Though that the good thing with them not all being monolithic. I remember seeing the astonished posts earlier this week when Lemmy.world had grown 10 times its previous size in just a few days and was near around 20,000 users. We’re now five times beyond that. And not stopping yet. That sort of growth isn’t sustainable but damn well fun to see.
Yeah, I am kinda worried about that. This whole Fediverse thing needed to be an open secret that grew in dribs and drabs, considering that it’s basically user-hosted. Explosive growth already caused a lot of grief for Beehaw. Things across the Fediverse stay working for now because a small army of working professional sysadmins are running large instances for kicks.
I was kinda hoping that all the cool kids acting like everything here was dumb would keep the growth sustainable but I get the impression that we’re all too old to care what the cool kids think.
We’re all thiiiis close to talking about our dividend portfolios n shit. Somebody’s gonna fuck around and start a thread about shitty knees and that thing’s gonna run for days.
If everyone can be all comfy with letting Twitch streamers have $5 a month just because, then it might be time to cough up for your social media, too. Ain’t no VC funding propping the Fediverse up. It’s not even propping up Reddit anymore. Jerome say no more free moneys, go buy a bond, and start a business that makes actual profit.
This is probably a good time to bring up that the Fediverse system seems designed around not one central server, but an endless chain of tiny user-hosted servers (instances), all interlinked together to create one community. Like the OLD days, but the software is a lot more seamless. This is what webrings look like now after 20 years of community development.
So if you were ever interested in hosting your own thing, just enough instance for you and 100 buddies, it’s something to look into. There’s a cottage industry of cloud providers who already understand what you’d be up to, no need to run the server yourself unless you want to. Digital Ocean is the suggestion I got from Byron Miller who is running Universidon. They’ve been doing well for small Masto instances. Of course Byron is one of those “army of sysadmins” guys so he’s rolling his own.
That is the sustainable model for this place, so the more it acts like the commercial socials, concentrating traffic in large instances, the more unsustainable it will get. Things like private instances are okay for a reason.