Probably the architecture will need to change significantly. (A decent rule of thumb is that a given architecture is good for an increase of about 100x, then it needs to change, then that’s good for the next 100x and so on).
I don’t even think most instances would be able to handle a 1000x increase even if it was spread across new instances. The amount of traffic coming into instances would also be up by a large multiple to account for the new users, communities and subscriptions. And given some of the cost concerns I’ve seen already, that would probably cause some instance admins to throw in the towel.
Well presumably donations would increase at a similar rate. In theory.
Obviously we all want the Fediverse to grow, but it has grow at a slow rate so it doesn’t overwhelm the instances financially or in terms of management. So new tech developments can support admins and community owners at dealing with increased traffic, and the trolling that would come with that. And so instance owners can appoint new admins to deal with rulebreakers.
Piefeds relatively fast development rate will, I think, come up with many efficencies and tools here that would mitigate instance owner burnout.
Also synchronization could become an issue. On the other hand I would really like to see how robust activity pub is. Can it actually handle large scale federation like this.
Lemmy has minuscule portion of users compared to mainstream social media. It doesn’t mean it’s dead.
I like the current vibe. If Lemmy grew suddenly 10x, I’m sure some of that small place energy would be lost.
It could afford to grow 10x but not 1000x.
That kind of growth would probably require many new instances too. I don’t think the current ones could handle 1000x load.
Probably the architecture will need to change significantly. (A decent rule of thumb is that a given architecture is good for an increase of about 100x, then it needs to change, then that’s good for the next 100x and so on).
I don’t even think most instances would be able to handle a 1000x increase even if it was spread across new instances. The amount of traffic coming into instances would also be up by a large multiple to account for the new users, communities and subscriptions. And given some of the cost concerns I’ve seen already, that would probably cause some instance admins to throw in the towel.
Well presumably donations would increase at a similar rate. In theory.
Obviously we all want the Fediverse to grow, but it has grow at a slow rate so it doesn’t overwhelm the instances financially or in terms of management. So new tech developments can support admins and community owners at dealing with increased traffic, and the trolling that would come with that. And so instance owners can appoint new admins to deal with rulebreakers.
Piefeds relatively fast development rate will, I think, come up with many efficencies and tools here that would mitigate instance owner burnout.
Also synchronization could become an issue. On the other hand I would really like to see how robust activity pub is. Can it actually handle large scale federation like this.