There are 150+ instances listed on the lemmy site. If we somehow managed to get all those instances running on hardware that could handle thousands of users, then we managed to find enough new techie people to get 10x as many instances, then we worked out some way of getting the load shared evenly so the new users didn’t all congregate on one instance and you manage to do this without confusing non-techie people about how it works, if all that goes to plan and you get each instance to support 10,000 users - you’ve now managed to support 15 million reddit users.

Reddit has over 430 million active monthly users. It’s just not feasible to do by 1 July, we need to let the community grow organically.