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jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Look at my post on how we can solve this!

OP: lemm.ee/post/2800726 TLDR: Automatic User Distribution

Whenever someone goes to the sign up page, for example, on Lemmy.world, we:

look at the recommender list
find the server that is most under capacity
have a very large iframe with "Sign up for Lemmy (using [under capacity server here])"
have a small “No, I want to sign up specifically on Lemmy.world” option

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jarfil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Does it take into account instance rules like language, moderation, or whether it’s a personal instance hosted on a raspi that may go down at any moment?

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neuromancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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- Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  People are talking about capacity because they don’t understand what’s really happening here, they think that it’s Reddit’s hug of death (that too many users are causing the site to go over capacity) when in reality it’s an attack, these outages are being caused by attackers intentionally not by a swarm of people unintentionally.
  
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- jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨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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  - neuromancer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
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    jeffhykin@lemm.ee ⁨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.
    
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midas@ymmel.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Would also be cool to have like a short questionnaire, like picking your class in Morrowind, but instead you end up on a German industrial metal music instance.

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