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The structure can absolutely scale, look at matrix and mastodon for examples, they're in the millions of users!
Well see here: https://lemmy.world/post/75556
With 12k users the server had to be upgraded, imagine if it was 1 million. Somebody has to pay those bills and it's yet to see how it will work with donations. So I think that this is the main challenge, not impossible at all to tackle (see Lichess or Wikipedia who live out of donations) but it's definitely interesting to see how it will work.
Why would one million people use that random instance?
because it is one of the most promoted, for example. Either that one or lemmy.ml. Currently most people don't even know what an instance is and just look for a main Lemmy page where to register.
Sure, they might migrate, still the problem could easily happen again.
Meh, it wasn't really a problem on mastodon, and isn't a problem at all on matrix, so, i'm not worried about it.