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How will lemmy scale? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by phoneymouse@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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/

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[–] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you found that their political leanings have affected you in any way? Just curious if you have some sort of bias that's making you think people on the left can't produce efficient software.

[–] ritswd@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It hasn’t. But letting terrible people have power affects the world in normalizing violence and hatred. It’s not about left or right, if they were American racists against Chinese people, I would have the exact same problem. I’m personally quite on the left, but without the hate.

I am living safe and not being targeted with hateful violence like the Uyghurs or North Koreans are, so this is far, far more important than what can affect me.

[–] Hexadecimalkink@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

Sorry I don't want to turn this into a debate but I feel like you're being disingenious; black people are getting killed all around your country because of their skin colour, and you have private prisons that systematically exploit prison labour. How are the social, political, and cultural challenges for your country different than theirs? I live in a country the USA has deemed an autocracy, I'm not apart of the ruling class, but I am living safe and not being targeted with hateful violence. Likewise, are you ignorant to the plight of ethnic minorities in your country and the hateful violence they experience? It just seems so chauvanist of you to say that your country is superior than anothers because you have the privilege of being "safe".