this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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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.