Comment on Extended Site Maintenance - Friday 29th March 2024 13:00 UTC
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 9 months agoYeah pretty much, we’re still on an upwards trend of active users so thats taking some of the resource.
Part of the issue is all of the federation traffic as the rest of the fediverse grows, and processing all of that. Some sites have struggled with lemmy.world for example due to their size.
The backend services (such as pictrs to serve images) are getting more advanced but that also requires more resources.
MrTolkinghoen@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Interesting. One advantage I could see to federation would be the ability to process some content on a delay at times of high load. I.e. prioritize local content then catch-up on federated content as possible. I assume that isn’t how it works rn?
That could help alleviate federation forcing smaller instances to have to keep up with at least similarly big hardware requirements.
Demigodrick@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I believe there are discussions around “batching” updates together rather than sending each update as it happens. Pros and cons both ways (slower federation updates, but less resource) so the very clever people and devs will hopefully be able to come up with a good solution.