What would be the best thing to do to help keep lemmy.world up? Donate? Servers? What is the best way to help?

  • nothacking
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    1 year ago

    Each instance only downloads relieve content to its users. An instance with a popular community will have to handle all the posts made to that community, which will still be much smaller than all of them. While the overall load might be higher, the load on any given instance will be lower.

    Images, by far the biggest bandwidth user, are directly transfered from posting instance to client and are not federated. Having more instances will spread out that load very effectively.