This site is currently struggling to handle the amount of new users. I have
already upgraded the server, but it will go down regardless if half of Reddit
tries to join. However Lemmy is federated software, meaning you can interact
seamlessly with communities on other instances like beehaw.org
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It's one part uncharted territory to see how well Lemmy servers can scale, and it's another part balancing how much bigger of a hosting plan one needs to support the influx, amid the possibility of some people leaving after trying it out a bit.
Many servers run on 1 or 2 GB RAM which may not be enough if all of a sudden activity triples.
Maybe I'm crazy however if this is the instance run by developers. Is $30-100/month really impossible to handle? I figured this would be their more exciting time.
Yeah, I'm curious at the scaling problems. 1000 active users isn't that many. Especially if this is touted as being the next reddit. There are many subreddits with orders of magnitude more active users.
Does lemmy.ml allow communities from all instances? Or is there any instance that does? Like poverty meals is in lemmygrad so you can't access it from beehaw if I understand Lemmy properly
lemmygrad gets banned from almost all instances. I'd recommend creating a PovertyMeals on an instance that isn't filled with as many hyper-political people.