lemmy was designed for exactly the number of users who used it before the reddit influx (and exactly the sort of tech-savvy user who would find lemmy and think it desirable) and not a user more, and now it’s having to accommodate about 10x that number and people who expect it to slot into the hole reddit used to fill for them. how running this place has transpired since June began is genuinely less of a “stress-test” and more of a “systemic revelation that everything here is designed in a way that is completely antithetical to scale or baseline usability”