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/
Your point for Lemmy passing the governance of their project could happen. Or, as the number of other contributors increase, people will think that the impact of the two creators is diluted.
Or, at some point, someone creates a fork of Lemmy still based on ActivityPub, still compatible with both Lemmy and Kbin, but without any of Lemmy’s political background ’
Exactly, that’s what I’m rooting for.