Comment on What makes this website resistant to enshitrification?
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months agoMore people, more resources. More people, more moderation. More people, more problems. More time consuming. More admins, more time to make decisions. And so on.
shrugal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Yea but that’s not what exponential growth means. Fix costs stay the same regardless of the number of users an instance has, and the cost per user usually goes down when you scale the capacity. So the costs still increase of course, but the curve tends to flatten.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I mean in the initial growth phase. Yes it will eventually flatten out, but the way Lemmy is run atm won’t likely do that unless it stays small.
shrugal@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Talking about exponential growth in the early phase makes even less sense, because exponential curves actually grow very slowly at the beginning while projects usually start out with substantial initial costs to get things going. And nothing about the way Lemmy is run indicates that it won’t flatten out or doesn’t flatten out already, I really have no idea why you would think that.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Maybe “snowballs” is a better metaphor. Point is, the way an instance is run today (1 person, maybe a small team dealing with everything) isn’t sustainable through growth without outside money coming in. The counter I keep hearing is to essentially keep that instance small, but number of users isn’t the only problem. More content needing to be processed is. And keeping things small and or having performance problems is not something that will help community building.