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I'm not an admin, but have followed the sizing discussions around the lemmyverse as closely as I can from my position of lacking first-hand knowledge:
lemmy.ml
is the biggest instance by user count, but runs on incredibly modest 8-cpu hardware. Their cloud provider doesn't provide any easy scale up options for them, so they can't trivially restart on a bigger VM with their db and disk in place. I suspect this means that instance is going to suffer for a bit as they figure out what to do next.lemmy.world
on the other hand was running on a box at least twice as big aslemmy.ml
at last count, and I believe they can go quite a bit bigger if they need to.lemmy.world
admins also runmastodon.world
and lived through the twitterpocalypse, seeing peak user registrations rates of 4k per hour. So this is not their first rodeo in terms of explosive growth, I'm sure that experience gives them some tricks up their sleeve.I'm surprised that
sh.itjust.works
isn't growing faster. They also have a hefty hardware setup and seemingly the technical admins to handle big user counts. I wonder if it's a branding problem, wherelemmy.world
sounds inviting and plausibly serious wheresh.itjust.works
sounds like clowntown even though it's run by a capable and serious team.That was my thought process when choosing an instance tbh. I'm not a tech person, I looked at the list and lemmy.world was the first 'safest feeling' instance that had open sign up. I saw sh.itjust.works and didn't even check their sign up process, there was too many periods in the strange name and it just looks weird to me as someone not used to these things. Edit: spelling
I definitely second the motion on it being a branding problem. Stuff like sh.itjust.works seem to me like something that dark basement tech nerds would come up with that is "edgy" and really only used by them and other people like them.
I'm not really into the ironic "edgy" aesthetic and part of the struggle with this transition for me has been orienting myself in the space because I don't want to commit to some "sketchy" edgelord URL
That's exactly what it is and why I love it. The whole thing about this federated networking is that it doesn't matter where you signed up.
Where you sign up entirely determines your local feed.
Just like with reddit, I don't use defaults.
The least useful of the three feeds
Depending on where you sign up, it could be the most useful.
Where you sign up greatly effects moderation and administration issues like updating the software the instance runs on to benefit from security fixes, optimizations, and enhancements.