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Why don't instances create user caps (at least temporarily) to help spread the load? Seems wild to have unlimited sign-ups when instances max out typical hardware at a couple thousand users.
Well, not every user uses the same amount of server resources. Some are very active, some only use the server rarely, some register an account, check out Lemmy and never come back for one reason or another.
Should maybe rate-limit concurrent connections or scale.
With lemmy.world I believe the issue was that it was handling that number of users fine, then version 0.18 came and when they upgraded to it their server started struggling.