Correct me if I’m wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I’m a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until you have a significant piece of auditory (e.g. private instances or servers with no users). Are there any “balancers” to utilize these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with such fast growth?

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Here is a post from the admin of sh.itjust.works talking about his setup that is currently handling 2k+ users pretty well, and according to the latest update 10 minutes ago still has a lot more spare capacity to go.

    I’ve seen some posts about self-hosted Lemmy servers that run very well on the cheapest VPS tiers that hosting services can provide (the 2-5 USD/month range).