With forewarning about a huge influx of users, you know Lemmy.ml will go down. Even if people go to https://join-lemmy.org/instances and disperse among the great instances there, the servers will go down.

Ruqqus had this issue too. Every time there was a mass exodus from Reddit, Ruqqus would go down, and hardly reap the rewards.

Even if it’s not sustainable, just for one month, I’d like to see Lemmy.ml drastically boost their server power. If we can raise money as a community, what kind of server could we get for 100$? 500$? 1,000$?

  • epical@lemmy.ml
    22·
    2 years ago

    Nowadays doesn’t even make any sense to use servers. Everyone already have decent computers and/or smartphones able to host their own content (text) and their friends content. Doesn’t require much. Why not create something better? We already have decentralized finance but we still using centralized social networks. How’s this possible?!

    • nutomic@lemmy.mlM
      5·
      2 years ago

      Then users would have to deal with key pairs. By using websites we get the domain system which users are already familiar with. And it supports normal password login which is impossible in p2p.

      • epical@lemmy.ml
        1·
        2 years ago

        I think owning our accounts would be actually good and saving a key pair is as simple as saving a password. Also, the server wouldn’t be going down because there would be no servers.

    • roho@lemmy.ml
      3·
      2 years ago

      Nowadays doesn’t even make any sense to use servers. … Why not create something better?

      i think you might underestimate the problem.

      Jami.net (a decentralized messaging app) works p2p. it uses a torrent-like distributed-hashmap to locate the peers at any moment. (The main usability issue for nontechnical users, is that devices on an internal ip address aren’t addressable from outside. This requires (a single point of failure and privacy concern), a turn-server)

      They started to incorporate Git for merging chats for the reason that any of set of peers (of a group chat) can be out of reach of another set of peers, i.e. the chat continues on different branches and needs to be merged again later.(this happens in the clients-app, because there is no central server). Jami is aiming at double-digit group sizes… That’s not nearly the size of what Lemmy is handling.

    • ch1cken@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      Everyone already have decent computers and/or smartphones able to host their own content (text) and their friends content

      What if there was something like lemmy, but p2p, similar to how peertube works. And for dead content it could fallback to a server?