One of my top 50 favorite memes of all time hahahahaha

I’ll never understand why so many people seem to willingly buy houses under an HOA tyranny

An actual ecosystem would keep the tick population down though, but also if you don’t have deer regularly roaming through your front yard you should be fine too

How is this so fucking accurate on how it feels like they actually brainstorm new Pokemon

Personally I can’t see a use-case for an instance that has ~100 users, people would just get bored and stop using it and move on to a more popular one. It’s not like a Minecraft server. Having people use a social media tool like Lemmy or a sub on Reddit is about having a critical mass of interesting content and users. But if there is such a small community, sure a single box is fine.

And load balancers are hardly fancy… if you know how to setup a webserver and write an nginx configuration, it’s like the next step of understanding. Digital ocean makes it incredibly easy.

Not trying to be pedantic, but why do they have to do so? Why can’t people figure it out themselves?

Er, because we should all be working together to try to help Lemmy grow and be stable…? Because good-will and being nice and helpful to each other is intrinsically good?

Also, why can’t Lemmy instances run on single non-redundant boxes? Most instance operators don’t have the budget of enterprises, so why would they have to run their Lemmy’s like enterprises?

You can run on a single box, but a single problem will bring down your single box. This is a basic problem commonly discussed in DevOps circles.

Multi-server or containerized deploys aren’t only achievable by enterprise level companies. For example, one reasonably priced server on most providers is like $20-40/month. Say a load balancer as a service is another $10-20, and a database server or database as a service is also like $20-$40. A distributed, redundant setup would be like 2 webservers, a database, and a load balancer so like, $70? Maybe add in another server as a file host if Lemmy needs it (wordpress does iirc), or an additional caching server at a cheaper cost. And then you have a more stable service that can handle usage spikes better and users are more likely to stay around.

I’ve deployed clustered applications myself, I just haven’t looked into doing it with Lemmy and was curious if they had a run book or documentation.

Edit: or you use kubernetes or kubernetes as a service like ruud is saying they might look into. Could probably get it at the same cost.

Oh, I could a swore I read somewhere you went multi. Maybe I’m confusing another instance

What I mean is if they post the specifics on how they setup a cluster of servers, other instance operators or people who want to start their own instance could more easily do so or just get off a single server configuration. No Lemmy instance should really be running on a single non-redundant box anyways, even if it’s only 2 small servers.

@[email protected] They should post their clustered setup so others can replicate more easily. It sounded like they had several webservers in front of a database (hopefully a cache box too).

The question then is why do they feel they need to moderate so hard instead of letting downvotes/individual blocking/subscriptions do most of the work, and why don’t they have individual sub mods who can handle policing their own subs