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How will lemmy scale?
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this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
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I mean it can….it’s just very DB heavy. It would be on an admin to scale up and scale out a single instance witb multiple dbs, replication etc.
It would be nice to be able to assign dbs to a task (ie: one for federation updates, one for local community posts, one to service web requests. There may be a way to do that already but I’m not aware, it may need to be in code.
Also syncing/federation across instances seems to be a mixed bag. And my instance will sometimes waste threads trying to sync with instances they have come and gone. As a result some communities id love to see updates on don’t come through.
Ideally they figure a way to continue to optimize federation and allow smaller instances to just pick up the load.
Mine is open, but I’m not getting any registration requests. I’m not upset about it but their main join page still seems to optimize for larger instances. It would make more sense to optimize for smaller ones to better distribute load. And focus dev work on better l/smoother syncing between federated instances.
Some locking down is a concern. I would love to see a lemmy of trust group if that came to pass. Where you can join the group and federate. My biggest concern with open federation is the legal risk of things like CSAM or CP getting synced onto your instances even if you have the nsfw box unchecked.