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What is the maximum number of active users on an instance before the financial burden gets too high for the admins? (sopuli.xyz)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Pretty straight question.

I see Lemm.ee is now the second most populated instance based on https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list, with 3634 monthly active users.

I also know that Lemmy devs said that

lemmy.ml is bigger than beehaw, and only costs 80 euros per month for a dedicated server.

https://lemmy.ml/comment/2372503

As lemmy.ml has 3561 monthly active users, should we consider that around 3,5k-4k users is the sweet spot for an instance population, and stop recommending the ones that reached that threshold?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well I’m not sure. I’d have to see the stats and specs used to run said instances. Lemm.ee alone has already generated enough cash to last quite a few years if they stopped today and kept the donations for the actual server/upgrades. sunaurus has already said he can pay it himself indefinitely.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting. The costs of LW seems much higher, but also they have 20k more users

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have they gave the specs used to run it? I’m really curious.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In this comment https://lemmy.world/comment/881738 from a month ago ruud said it's one of these https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/ax161

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Weird that comment link is returning

{"error":"not_logged_in"} And damn that’s a beast for sure.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yikes, but this is a collection of multiple things being ran too. Mastodon/Lemmy/firefish