It feels like more Lemmy apps are going to make their way on to the app stores. With more apps, comes more people. More people, more API calls. How do we scale this server and hopefully all of the others to come, financially?
There are some REALLY interesting Podcast 2.0 features in the works. Especially using “value4value” and “boosting” as a way for listeners to tip their favorite podcasts and fund them directly. I wonder if somehow we can learn from it?
For those who do not know, hopefully these Podcasting 2.0 features will help podcasters continue to thrive in world where companies like Spotify and Amazon have decided to destroy our incredible open and free podcast networks by making “exclusives” and putting them behind paywalls that don’t follow the open standards.
I’d really love to integrate Podcasting 2.0 RSS and the fediverse. How cool would it be if every podcast episode just had its own place in the fediverse with a place to chat and it all worked together somehow automatically.
I dunno. Just a thought.
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I think an API call to a server is less demanding than visiting or scraping the site. So I don’t think a 3rd party app is going to cause more issues than the traffic itself, which the hosters already have figured out. Reddit issues with API calls aren’t that they cause increased server load, it was that they didn’t get to serve you ads or collect your data. Lemmy doesn’t do either of those so that isn’t an issue.
Correct, API calls are less demanding than visiting a website. A website requires at least a front and back-end service. An API call should only require the back-end and it’s required dependencies ( databases and whatnot.
The scenario I’ve laid out in my question is suggesting more apps in the app store == more general users. More users == more stress on the servers. Most people will never even consider trying something unless there’s an app. My assumption was that there may be a flood of users willing to try Lemmy once the apps are more widespread and some of the fediverse authority issues are ironed out.
Reddit isn’t being run on a single pizza box, i know that much. I’ve been involved in infrastructure for applications on a scale most people will never see. Either-way, my intention here is that Lemmy is in a very fragile state at the moment. I can’t log into another lemmy instance. It doesn’t work. If one goes down everyone is stuck. People don’t like broken things or care why something like lemmy needs a bit a patience, they will just move on from Lemmy and never think about it again. We may get a flood of users at the end of the month, it would be a shame to blow it.