Seems like they are under attack again, will those people never stop? I feel sorry for the admin team.

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    1 year ago

    I agree capacity isn’t the cause of outages. Centralization is an issue, and capacity is a way for a server like Lemmy.world to say “I would prefer less new users”

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      1 year ago

      Capacity and active users is not the same, capacity is the maximum number of users a server can host.

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        1 year ago

        Agreed, in my original post I mentioned posts per day as a metric thats slightly closer to actual load. But its pretty hard to throttle number of posts, so I think users is going to be a more useful value.

        If a server has really active users they can set a lower target number of users.

        Eventually it would be nice to have a standardized way of migrating and backing up accounts to make it possible for one server to offload its existing users to another server.