I’m pretty new to the fediverse, and I find the idea amazing. But one thing concerns me though. How will server owners be able to afford to run servers with massive amounts of data coming through them? Theoretically speaking, if a Reddit migration were to happen how would server upkeep costs look like?

  • infamousbelgian@lemmy.worldB
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Will databases grow huge on all instances if we get a hugh amount of extra users that create tons of content? I mean, if lemmy.world explodes, will all small instances need to follow?

    I don’t want to know how large the database of, let’s say Reddit, actually is.

    Or am I getting this fediverse thingy wrong again?

    • s38b35M5@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      I don’t want to know how large the database of, let’s say Reddit, actually is

      Too bad! There’s an archive project (from r/DataHoarder) working now to grab what can be grabbed. So far its up to 3.01PB.

      Source

      • Overzeetop@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        1 year ago

        Thank goodness for people like this. I can point this out to my wife the next time she questions the new hard drives and show her how completely reasonable I am compared to some.

        • s38b35M5@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          1
          ·
          edit-2
          1 year ago

          I suspect so. The complete reddit archive from PushShift (text only up to March 2023) is about 2TB.