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I'm really enjoying lemmy. I think we've got some growing pains in UI/UX and we're missing some key features (like community migration and actual redundancy). But how are we going to collectively pay for this? I saw an (unverified) post that Reddit received 400M dollars from ads last year. Lemmy isn't going to be free. Can someone with actual server experience chime in with some back of the napkin math on how expensive it would be if everyone migrated from Reddit?

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[–] PorkrollPosadist@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It is an old programming trope that premature optimization is a waste of time. As Lemmy scales, several bottlenecks will be hit. Some might be predictable, but many will only become evident after crossing a specific threshold. There are a lot of guides for scaling Mastodon servers after hitting certain bottlenecks, but this is all uncharted territory for Lemmy and we're going to find out the fun way.

[–] slashzero@hakbox.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Real devs do it in prod!

I’m seriously tempted to write some performance tests in jmeter, locust, or k6, and fire up some live traffic simulations / simulated load against my lemmy instance to see what happens. But at the same time that would feel too much like work and I don’t want to work over the weekend.

[–] ImOnADiet@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 1 year ago

For an example of a problem that will only come up once it's popular enough, I think hexbear has found that when comment threads get too long (like 800+ nested comments), lemmy starts to break