Of course it is. More queries = more resources.
The number of users is not really what drives costs honestly. Or at least, it’s not like a linear relationship. I think actually having many popular communities might be a bigger issue.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 week ago
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 week ago
Yes, but honestly unless you’re very big, federation queries are the bulk of the processing and stuff from your own instance doesn’t matter at much. I mean think about it, do you think the 100 active users on your own instance is what costs or the 10000 users posting all over the fediverse is what matters? Obviously the latter. So again, local user count is not that impactful.
Blaze@feddit.org 1 week ago
On that topic, could limiting the posting of pictures and asking people to use external picture hosts help with that?
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 week ago
Yes, storage costs matters. I think it’s honestly crazy that Lemmy caches images as much as it does. It would be great to be able to just disable it completely, but alas you can’t do that without disabling uploads for your own users either (at least I don’t know how).
Blaze@feddit.org 1 week ago
Disabling uploads might be an option. You probably just need to announce it to the people beforehand, but I see most of the people using image links from other sites, so that might not be an issue.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 week ago
It’s a major downside to my own users though. I wish I could disable uploads for everyone else :P