Correct me if I’m wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I’m a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until you have a significant piece of auditory (e.g. private instances or servers with no users). Are there any “balancers” to utilize these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with such fast growth?

  • nii236
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    341 year ago

    What’s the alternative? You go full-banana decentralised or mega-site Reddit. I think Lemmy is a nice middle ground

    • @skarlow181@lemmy.world
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      91 year ago

      Proper data model would be a start, i.e. public-key based identities instead of just the old name@server. That way you could hop from server to server and still be the same account. Would make the whole thing a hell of a lot more robust, as in case of server failure could just continue as if nothing happened on another server.

      • nii236
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        21 year ago

        That’s a pretty cool idea! Keybase and SIWE were getting there, but hasn’t really taken off in a big way yet