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I agree capacity isn't the cause of outages. Centralization is an issue, and capacity is a way for a server like Lemmy.world to say "I would prefer less new users"
Agreed, in my original post I mentioned posts per day as a metric thats slightly closer to actual load. But its pretty hard to throttle number of posts, so I think users is going to be a more useful value.
If a server has really active users they can set a lower target number of users.
Eventually it would be nice to have a standardized way of migrating and backing up accounts to make it possible for one server to offload its existing users to another server.