In preparation for the Reddit June 12-14 Black-out
As the reddit mods gets ready for the June 12-14 black-out, there some anticipation that an influx in user base will shift over to many of the lemmy instances as user seek out a home to post their internet memes and discuss their interests.
In anticipation of this increased volume I will be growing our current instance from
16 CPU
8 GB ram
to
24 CPU
64 GB ram
This server is currently equipped with SSDs that are configured in a raid 10 array (NVMEs will come in the next gen that get deployed)
Earlier today I also configured some monitoring that I'll be watching closely in order to have a better understanding on how the lemmy platform does under stress (for science!)
I'll be sharing graphs and some other insights in this thread for everyone that is interested. Feel free to ask anything you might be interested in knowing more of!
EDIT: I'll be posting and updating the graphs in this main post periodically!
Last updated: 6:21AM ET June 12th
Just joined you from that featured site, it just works. People are complaining about how hard it is to switch, I genuinely don’t know what the difficulty is
Saw some dude who had spent a week on and off trying every couple of days to join and all the servers rejected him and he had given up lol. Most users are lazy fucks. If you want quality users, it's okay to hide the goods and let the best people find them. If you want mass adoption you need to adapt to the lowest common demoninator.
Well that and you can't even tell if you are rejected, and why. I waited over 24hours for one, and I still can't tell if I was rejected or what. It is a nice feeling to just be able to use this without jumping through hoops
Joined from recommended a bit less than an hour ago. Tried lemmy.ml, got rejected, went for this one cuz it was top recommended and I figured with the name and the user count the likelihood of rejection was smaller.