• AllGoesUpMustGoDown@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Not necessarily. New users gravitate towards established, large instances, such as lemmy.world and lemmy.ml. Expanding horizontally would just create a few laggy and overflowing instances, and a bunch of tiny instances no one uses.

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      1 year ago

      And once the devs can’t maintain server costs, they should shut down new registrations.

      There’s no need to charge for servers