I believe Lemmy is not really scalable. Every instance is blasting updates to every other instance. It’s kind of nuts that it works right now. When/If it reaches 100 million users, I think most smaller instances would not be able to stay online.
The same single post gets retweeted and reposted on X and other socials over 100’s of times and even more with the biggest posts, so it shouldn’t be impossible
Yes, Lemmy is using one SQL database for each instance. Twitter has only one instance, but still has a whole special architecture for handling tweet fanout.
I believe Lemmy is not really scalable. Every instance is blasting updates to every other instance. It’s kind of nuts that it works right now. When/If it reaches 100 million users, I think most smaller instances would not be able to stay online.
The same single post gets retweeted and reposted on X and other socials over 100’s of times and even more with the biggest posts, so it shouldn’t be impossible
Yes, Lemmy is using one SQL database for each instance. Twitter has only one instance, but still has a whole special architecture for handling tweet fanout.