Hey everyone! Figured I would do an AMA to kick off some activity in the IAmA community over here. Feel free to throw down some questions below and ill answer them
I’m currently a student in university and have been doing both web development and game development recently (web for internships, game on my own). Out of the four admins ive been the one mainly handling community creation and managing in the instance to make sure everythings running smoothly
Some other misc topics that I can answer about: I compose music & make pixel art, and my favorite games are minecraft, SCP:SL, everhood, battlerite, and metal slug 3
If anyone else wants to do an AMA feel free to start one up in the community (assuming it fits the instance). Any activity helps get the ball rolling for getting it active
The first question there I cant really answer since I dont deal with hosting (the other admins are the ones doing that) but I think its on a VPS. In terms of issues with scaling, that will be from smaller instances interacting with larger ones. If theres a small instance with around 10 people that federates and gets content from all the communities in the bigger instances it would need more resources than usual due to all the content coming in that is needs to handle and store. That then expanded for all of the different small instances can get to be a bit much for all of them. Things that can prevent that though is people in the same instance subscribing to the same things (since it already got that content so it doesnt need to get it again for the other person) and not subscribing to everything you see