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One question I have about "servers stabilizing" is that federated communities seem like it might be a little more fragile in the longer term, no?
Just because someone starts an instance and a community is formed. Let's say Lemmy really takes off as the new reddit and that community get's huge, like reddit/r/funny huge or something else. Now that person who started the instance is on the hook for keeping it going and paying for the server, right? Does this get unsustainable? Are we going to see a reddit-dying hug of death for all these instances?
Lemmy is designed to scale horizontally, which means that it can grow infinitely large. As long as the server owner has the funds and is willing to pay for beefier servers the potential of a instance growing is massive. This however does come with it's fallbacks. Moderating that many people can be very difficult, also if not many folks donate to keep the server up then it fails. If you see yourself using this site long term I'd highly consider donating to your instance!
Yeah, it's not my instance that I'm worried about, but rather the instance where a community gets built that I value. I can donate to a couple, but not all instances. I am worried about the long term stability of the platform if Communities are at risk. Are there ways to migrate a community between instances if one instance becomes nonviable or is operated by someone/people who aren't in it anymore.
It seems like the horizontal scaling is great, but what I'm worried about is the vertical.
I don't think you can migrate communities yet but at least the content isn't lost if an instance goes down because it's cached on all federated instances.
I wonder if it would be possible for whoever is running the instance to get with a bunch of people and a group sets up a server and maybe crowd funds the cost of it
I think we'll see stuff like this happen if growth continues - non-profit and co-op supported servers. I know some folks who manage Mastadon instances have brought this up before.
Shit costs, I don't think anyone disagrees with that. But there are definitely ways around that. As a user, if I'm benefitting from the service I'm happy to pay a small fee towards keeping my instance humming. Much prefer that than paying with my eyeballs (ads).
Interesting times.