What will happen if a huge number of active, adequate people come on lemmy, for example, 1 million in 2026? (lemmy.world)

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 14 points 4 days ago

The servers would crash

[-] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 6 points 4 days ago

My instance is more reliable than reddit ever has been

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Yeah I agree but it simply cannot handle that volume. Lemmy servers are self hosted by hobbiest who simply don't have the infrastructure for 1mil so suddenly

this post was submitted on 28 Dec 2025

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