A couple million posts isn’t much?

Therefore to comply, the server would relocate or go offline.

I specifically said linear and not flat because it is a non-exponential increase.

You could say the rate of posts is flat, but the data series is posts, not rate of posts.

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats

Total posts by month appears fairly linear.

It uses stripe

Is it just a sync thing, and more will come in over time? I’ve never played with hosting. But I do know you should check the logs.

It’s a lot easier for them to use the same scraper they use on other sites than to build something custom.