I see plenty of posts talking about a huge influx of new users to lemmy.ml lately. Can we get some numbers about that? How many new users per day are we talking? How does that translate to number of requests per second (or minute) on the frontend?
What kind of hardware is lemmy.ml running on? Is it just a single server? Can lemmy instances be run on a loadbalanced cluster?
I’m really interested to see how efficient and resilient the lemmy software really is, at the moment I am getting the impression that it is buckling under the load of, honestly, not even that many users…
Somebody made a Mastodon bot that that updates user numbers every hour https://botsin.space/@threadcount
98,776 Lemmy/kbin accounts +2,326 in the last hour 15,274 monthly active users
This seems to count accounts and threads over the entire lemmy user base (btw, how does that even work in a distributed system like this?), not just one instance. Still interesting information, mind you, just not quite what I was looking for.