With forewarning about a huge influx of users, you know Lemmy.ml will go down. Even if people go to https://join-lemmy.org/instances and disperse among the great instances there, the servers will go down.
Ruqqus had this issue too. Every time there was a mass exodus from Reddit, Ruqqus would go down, and hardly reap the rewards.
Even if it’s not sustainable, just for one month, I’d like to see Lemmy.ml drastically boost their server power. If we can raise money as a community, what kind of server could we get for 100$? 500$? 1,000$?
Then users would have to deal with key pairs. By using websites we get the domain system which users are already familiar with. And it supports normal password login which is impossible in p2p.
I think owning our accounts would be actually good and saving a key pair is as simple as saving a password. Also, the server wouldn’t be going down because there would be no servers.