• RobotToaster@mander.xyzEnglish
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    7 months ago

    but set them to pull such numbers in for each post/comment mirrored from another instance.

    I think the asynchronous way lemmy handles creating a comment/post and then sending it would make this difficult.

    • MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.deOPEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      An entirely acceptable answer to both my original question and my suggestion, although I had already attempted to address that. Every instance generating their own, seemingly non-random*, numbers for every post and comment was a big reason my mind skipped to “insanity” for my title - can we say “does not, SHOULD not, scale” any louder? Thanks again.

      *

      spoiler

      Looking at the comment links in the OP cross-referenced with entries on lemmyverse.net, discuss.tchncs.de and lemmy.dbzer0.com have similar user numbers, both an order of magnitude larger(as large? anyways…) than jlai.lu … the reason jlai.lu’s comment numbers has got so high, about one-half instead of one-tenth as the user numbers might suggest, probably boils down to those users being subscribed to a large number of communities, but still not so many as the users of the other two servers. Run that up against the fact that there are fewer communities than users, anywhere, et viola!

      That concludes this episode of my conjectural bullshit. Thanks for watching.