exchristian @lemmy.one spaceghoti @lemmy.one 1y ago

Please do not register directly through lemmy.one

Our gracious host @JonahAragorn asks that we sign up on a server on join-lemmy.org or sign up on kbin.social instead of directing everybody to use the lemmy.one server specifically, in order to distribute the load.

Thank you!

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It looks like about the 1k active user mark is where the Lemmy instance starts to use too many resources. lemmy.ml has blown past that with 1.7k active and almost 40k total registered users, and they're having a lot of performance issues over there.

Hope they can build a good scaling framework into the Lemmy backend pretty damn quick, because nobody is going to survive the Reddit influx otherwise.
- To clarify, you're saying this is an inherent issue in the Lemmy code, not an issue with hosting or whatever? So it's not currently possible for a Lemmy instance to handle a couple thousand users?
  
  I have a very limited understanding, but, yes. A few thpusand is ok so far, but The database managing post contents becomes the bottleneck as it simply cannot be updated fast enough. No single instance can handle that much traffic, it has to be horizontally scaled somehow.
What happens when /r/atheism wants to join this community through lemmy.one?
- If the current mods of r/atheism on Reddit want to create a new community here on lemmy.one, they can message me as described here: https://lemmy.one/post/41
  
  If people are just looking for an existing atheism community here on the Lemmy network, there are atheism communities already on other servers, such as [email protected].
  
  I think we should have new users go to join-lemmy and specifically go to like near the bottom and register there to decentralize lemmy thorooughly
  
  Thanks. It's clear I don't understand how this works. I was wondering if/when reddit implodes if this place would be able to handle the traffic. Again, don't think I understand how this works. I'm learning. Thanks again.
- I don't think I understand the question. There's a host of servers to sign up through and they can all access each other. [email protected] can reach us here, no problem.
I purchased (havent deployed) lemmy.club yesterday and I'm going to look in to deploying via kubernetes this weekend. We'll need some instances that can horizontally scale so that we can absorb as many users as we can from the APIcalypse.

I'm slightly worried about the costs, but I'm loving the platform so far and am willing to do as much as I can!
Oops, saw this too late. Should I figure out how to delete the account, just not use it, or what?
- You're welcome to use this account :)
  
  I just want to avoid everybody joining lemmy.one.
  
  I've been encouraging everybody at reddit to join lemmy.one in preparation for the exodus.
  
  Should I stop doing that?
  
  lemmy.one is the perfect catchall destination name.

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