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<meta property="og:title" content="On not scaling LURK: a tale of
maintenance, federation, and governance" />
<meta property="og:description" content="Ruminations on scale, technology and sustainability and their consequences for how lurk.org is run" />
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<meta property="og:type" content="website" />
<meta name="twitter:card" content="summary_large_image" />
<meta name="twitter:title" content="On not scaling LURK: a tale of
maintenance, federation, and governance" />
<meta name="twitter:description" content="Ruminations on scale, technology and sustainability and their consequences for how lurk.org is run" />
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<meta name="twitter:image:alt" content="Capybara with a hat says 'too rad to be sad'" />
<title>On not scaling LURK: a tale of maintenance, federation, and
governance</title>
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However, the LURK instance is the place where the most interaction
is taking place, and has become an entry point to the other things
we host in many situations.</p>
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<p>We’re happy that many of you are trusting us, and consider this
instance to be their new home base, however, and like many other
Mastodon instances who suddenly grew, the increase in active users
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could seem obvious. More LURKers the better? Well, not quite. For
us, not scaling up was always the obvious choice for the
sustainability of the project.</p>
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+ <p><img src="RFbXd8pXRCKW8qkxrIOeXg.webp" /></p>
<p>Specifically, there are three interrelated ways in which the
issue of sustainability comes to play for post.lurk.org. First,
long-term sustainability of the project itself. Second, financial
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course, this has an impact on the experience of the instance. So
what to do? Well, the bottom line is that there is only so much we
can, and, honestly, want to do.</p>
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+ <p><img src="iFfov8BmSq21IIPSNJtDFg.webp" /></p>
<p>Since the start, we tried to focus on quality over quantity on
post.lurk.org. This has meant that we try to maintain a healthy
diversity—across genders, creative practices, cultural backgrounds
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after a while. That’s cool. But this means that we could potentially
welcome new people occasionally, without compromising on our way of
running the instance.</p>
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+ <p><img src="3DCjoMkpReeZYDijQbP_4w.webp" /></p>
<p>Until now, we did this is in a relatively unstructured way,
opening applications every now and then, and receiving suddenly a
huge wave of messages from people explaining to us why our instance
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privilege both diversity <em>and</em> people that are not yet on the
fedi. You will be for sure lectured about it once more by the helpful heron
when you ask for an invite URL!</p>
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<p>It’s also important to say that, next to running the LURK
instances and its other services, we are also active developing and
offering workshops for communities to onboard the fediverse, not
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instance mitosis is the kind of scaling we’d like to see more happen
on the Fediverse instead of the emergence of heavily centralised and
large instances.</p>
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<p>As mentioned above, we do this for the sake of it, and, outside
some flurries of work on technical things or moderation issues, it
has been fairly easy going. We want to keep it this way and are
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this point, we spoke both formally and informally with many other
LURKers and friends, but also learned from practice and from what
other instances were doing.</p>
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<p>Concerning financial sustainability, one of the ways we have been
receiving (and gladly accepting) a tremendous amount of support is
in terms of donations. We started an <a
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our buffer to empty very fast. What is sure is that your ongoing support in
the form of donations will allow us to continue this fermentation of
community server maintenance for the long term. <3</p>
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<p>Last but not least, at the intersection of financial and
ecological sustainability is the question of technology use.
Sticking to the magic number of 666 accounts and operating with a
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space, which is wrongly considered as a “cheap” and easy to access
commodity and therefore this is not considered a fundamental
issue.</p>
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+ <p><img src="i2l56pBPRxKNGJ6FJabDkw.webp" /></p>
<p>One of the things we do on post.lurk.org to counteract this is to
frequently prune this cache on the server. That however, has some
implications: only the most recent remote posts are visible instantly, and,
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before as the entire network grows in size. For instance, one way
the network will drastically grow, is if/when Facebook’s Instagram’s
Meta’s Threads becomes fully interoperable.</p>
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+ <p><img src="SE3W9YkGTreFRaMVgkF2vg.webp" /></p>
<p>In conclusion, this is also where these three strands coincide in
to our position on federating with Threads: it is weird that
volunteer mods and admins will have to put in effort to maintain a
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really?</p>
<p><img src="FToAO_ZXEAkqlCg.jpeg" /></p>
<p>Happy LURKing :^) Alex, Aymeric, Brendan, Lídia, Roel</p>
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<section class="footnotes footnotes-end-of-document"
role="doc-endnotes">
<hr />
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