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Seems to me the fear of overloading one instance over another will not happen after all.

But I do hope the Threadiverse can hit 500,000 consistent active users by the end of summer.

Give me that hopium guys! 💉

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[–] Cirom@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, I switched over to another server simply because lemmy.world was slow and then got compromised with the whole injection thing. No other reason.

[–] Killgannon@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone explain this like I’m an idiot (because I am)? This sounds like at some point I’m going to need to create a new account because shit will get too….popular? Dafuq? I downloaded Voyager, spent a bajillion hours looking for communities to add to my feed because fuck Reddit, and this conversation is scaring/confusing the shit out of me.

Thanks

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Deep breath, it's all good!

.world was having trouble because it grew really really fast (like it's only existed for about six weeks at this point), and the Lemmy software had never been tested with the sorts of numbers we very suddenly saw during the Reddit migration. So naturally there were performance problems, as nobody had ever run a Lemmy instance that large.

A few instance admins put their heads together and figured out various fixes and optimisations, and now it's running fine. Maybe we'll get into more issues down the road, that's just the nature of being the first to try something new. But it's nothing to panic about, think of it more like you're a brave pioneer into an exciting new world :D