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?
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> Because you can still access all content no matter where you are.
If you know how and want to do it. Unfortunately, it isn’t the way how most people think.
And fortunately, there’s still time for people’s minds to change. Federation and decentralization are things that aren’t really advertised or mainstream yet so people still don’t have a clue what it is. However, we do know how those things work, so I guess it’s kind of up to us to help people know about how said things work.
I’d like to help with this improvement. Do you know any plans for it? Honestly, looks like that there is no “lemmy committee” and even lemmy’s developers cannot organize something like this. Any ideas?
Nothing good can come out of a federation committee. Invite whoever you want wherever you want and give a little bias to smaller instances, and it should balance itself out.
I dont suggest adding a centralization =) I see two possible and actionable directions:
I’m confused about what you want. Why should I care about lemmy.ml being over run because they didn’t put enough resources into their instance?
Because we are here because of content, made by users. I’m thinking about whole “lemmy-verse”. If users encounter issues, they just stop using the service. You as an instance owner can choose to not participate. But if somebody already thinks rhat they helps, why not use it?
I’m getting plenty of content. Not sure what the issue is.
Amen on matrix. Federating with most popular rooms on matrix.org basically brings my server to it’s knees for a week trying to play catch up between federating users and their profile pictures and decrypting years of chat history. On my first go I made the mistake of trying to join #matrix:matrix.org and I had to wipe the entire server clean to get it back.
Check out matrix 2.0 on youtube. It looks promising.
I still miss that game.
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Trying to host my own Synapse server once for my own use and seeing how it was chewing through every bit of resources on my server while providing an unusable slow experience has pretty much ruined Matrix as a whole for me as well as contributed significantly to my dislike for Python.
How long ago was this? Its in a much better state now.
A few years ago (3-4 maybe). It wasn’t just a bit slow either, more like the server using the full 16 gigabytes of RAM and constantly at 100% CPU and channels not even being usable to read them 20 minutes after joining.
That was my experience as well, and I completely wrote it off. After having gone back to it, and after watching the matrix 2.0 preview on youtube, things are a lot better than they were, and looking a lot better in the future.
Maybe I will give it another try one of these days when I have some time.
It’s funny you mention MMOs, because FFXIV has a system that i’m now realizing feels like federated websites.
You have your home world(server) where your character was created and is stored server side, but you can matchmake within your data center as well as visit other servers in your data center.
And then you can also temporarily transfer to different data centers (though the implementation is clunky and has a few restrictions)