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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 Blaze@sopuli.xyz to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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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[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Definitely agree, and that's why I think we can try to prevent that trend by recommending smaller instances to users looking to migrate

[-] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee -3 points 1 year ago

how about you leave that to people running the instances? i am sure they can make inform decisions without your advice ;)

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Well, people ask openly other people when gu instance to move to due to LW instability, if there's a better scenario than another, we can discuss it together

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