This can’t be true. Lemmy world is over 100k users now. And it depends on how many are active.
But yes, it would be very beneficial to the entire lemmy network if many more instances could grow and get active communities. Right now it’s like every community is from Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml. It’s stupid.
Edit: And I just checked out lemmy.world local… There are tons of posts that doesnt even federate to other instances. So the stability problems are pretty much affecting the entire fediverse now since they are so big.
Which is why it keeps dropping. The way Lemmy is designed, a bunch of stuff is kept in memory. Like loading a post with a lot of comments spikes the CPU and memory, A LOT A LOT. Things are of course improving rapidly, but until fixes like that and the federation queue land, it’s easy to bring a server so over capacity to its knees.
It clearly doesn’t have the capacity and until certain pull requests are merged, the capacity for an instance is ~2000 users, world is way over that.
This can’t be true. Lemmy world is over 100k users now. And it depends on how many are active.
But yes, it would be very beneficial to the entire lemmy network if many more instances could grow and get active communities. Right now it’s like every community is from Lemmy.world or Lemmy.ml. It’s stupid.
Edit: And I just checked out lemmy.world local… There are tons of posts that doesnt even federate to other instances. So the stability problems are pretty much affecting the entire fediverse now since they are so big.
Look at Lemmy world local using Voyager:
https://vger.app/posts/lemmy.world/local#galleryopen
Which is why it keeps dropping. The way Lemmy is designed, a bunch of stuff is kept in memory. Like loading a post with a lot of comments spikes the CPU and memory, A LOT A LOT. Things are of course improving rapidly, but until fixes like that and the federation queue land, it’s easy to bring a server so over capacity to its knees.