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[–] [email protected] 89 points 5 months ago (50 children)

IMO fediverse is big enough now to serve as reddit replacement.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (13 children)

We already have instances that go down or suffer from intermittent federation issues when lemmy.world gets a bit more active. The most conservative estimates are putting Reddit at 75 million DAU. If we get to 1% of that, you can bet that our current network would choke, badly.

Not only we need more instances, we also need to be a lot smarter about their organization and how to architect this network. I think we will only be able to grow larger if we make a more intentional separation between topic-based instances and "people-home" instances, so that we can have a better spread of the load.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (8 children)

The total federated bandwith is definatly a bottle neck we are starting to approach (ie what we see with .world and it overloading small instances). Not sure the solution here but I'm sure we can work past it without compromising on decentralisation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago
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