I have seen some instances asking for donations, which is surprising considering they’re not asking for a lot, but also that they’ve made it so far if relatively light expenses are troublesome. Seems like even a boom in new Fediversers could actually be detrimental to some instances in the short-term, but I don’t really understand how it all works.
yep, theres definitely a scaling issue. the lemmy hug of death has taken down a few instances. i suspect there is capacity to double the users on the small instances without too much hassle, but if the numbers got ridiculous it could be… challenging.
i kinda hope the bridging over to blueksky gets a little more fluid so we can attract users from that market. im runnin mbin, which includes the twitter-like crap (microblog).
it took reddit 15 years to get pretty big… i like to hope the fediverse can keep growing.
that said, right now the fediverse seems to be contracting. servers are shutting down/moving. funding is likely drying up in some corners.
we need more coops like beehaw. we need more tooling to handle that kind of payment model. and
::: spoiler we need some marketing :::
shhh i didnt say that.
I have seen some instances asking for donations, which is surprising considering they’re not asking for a lot, but also that they’ve made it so far if relatively light expenses are troublesome. Seems like even a boom in new Fediversers could actually be detrimental to some instances in the short-term, but I don’t really understand how it all works.
yep, theres definitely a scaling issue. the lemmy hug of death has taken down a few instances. i suspect there is capacity to double the users on the small instances without too much hassle, but if the numbers got ridiculous it could be… challenging.
i kinda hope the bridging over to blueksky gets a little more fluid so we can attract users from that market. im runnin mbin, which includes the twitter-like crap (microblog).