@lorcster123@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoWhats stopping the person who created this site lemmy.world from just nuking it and deleting all the posts on it one day?message-square48fedilinkarrow-up131
arrow-up131message-squareWhats stopping the person who created this site lemmy.world from just nuking it and deleting all the posts on it one day?@lorcster123@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square48fedilink
minus-square@marsara9@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•edit-21 year agoYep. Add in a 3rd instance and now you have 3 copies of the database, essentially. It’s just that each instance is responsible about telling the fediverse when updates occur to communities on their instance.
minus-square@lorcster123@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoIf the fediverse gets really big, lets say the size of reddit, it may be hard for all the different instances to store all that data on their servers
minus-square@marsara9@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish1•1 year agoYa, ActivityPub isn’t without it’s issues… but luckily it’s all just text. Much of that can be compressed significantly.
Yep. Add in a 3rd instance and now you have 3 copies of the database, essentially. It’s just that each instance is responsible about telling the fediverse when updates occur to communities on their instance.
If the fediverse gets really big, lets say the size of reddit, it may be hard for all the different instances to store all that data on their servers
Ya, ActivityPub isn’t without it’s issues… but luckily it’s all just text. Much of that can be compressed significantly.