This is exactly why the Reddit blackout would have been so easy to win if people actually held their ground

Is it possible to horizontally scale these instances instead of just upping the machine hardware? What are the main performance bottlenecks typically?

I've had this happen to me. I'm pretty happy to talk to anyone who approaches me so I made the mistake of saying hello to a girl who said hi to me. Being on Khaosan Road I should have known better. Anyway, she kept following me and asking me to engage in various acts for money, or even for "free". I kept saying no thank you, I'm good, but she kept following. I had to form a brisk jog to get away.

How did your perspective change?

Definitely do, it's fun. (Usually? Sometimes?)

I'm surprised my first whimsical drunken post got so high up in upvotes. I am also slightly saddened by it lol. I need to up the effort next time .

My comment was without knowing the topology of Lemmy at all, but my thoughts were initially that vertically scaling can have diminishing returns past a certain threshold. Since the servers seem to be struggling I'm wondering if that has been surpassed and if it's more cost-effective and reliable to scale this way? But if the application isn't written in that way, or the underlying data store isn't equipped for multiple instances then fair enough, I'd be interested as to why especially if Lemmy grows. I'll take a look at open issues and educate myself a bit more though.

I see it as a different skillset. You possess skills to cut maintainable code, work through issues (technical and people), and whatever other traits the organisation sees you doing well in, or have the potential to. That is quite different from interviewing, which is often just about impressing people enough to let you in the door. I say this having gone through the same process. If you're that worried, study the code as you're already doing, grind leetcode, or my preference - pick up harder problems and run with them. You'll learn some new stuff, maybe build something cool and feel a bit less like an imposter.

Thank god finally.

Tbh I have no idea, I stumbled across Lemmy from a random Reddit post. However, getting out of Reddit for a bit and looking around what's here now, it reminds me of the early days, and maybe I'm just old, but I think they were better. Maybe at Reddit's scale + the way the web is now just isn't something that scratches that itch for me. If not Lemmy I hope to find another alternative for that. But in order for this to work, you're right, it does need a certain number of users, we'll have to see how that pans out I guess.