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Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Lemmy is very similar to Matrix. By the way, there are channels in Matrix. There are communities on Telegram....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Privacy wise for me it is more convenient to run my own instance and have my own private communities.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

every instance is sharing in the traffic to browse the fediverse. Not one service is responsible for serving content, you (the instance admin) are only serving for your members.

The downside of this is there is a huge amount of replicated data stored everywhere. Content of popular communities will be scraped by and stored on many many servers, filling up servers and increasing storage and bandwith bills for all those servers

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

The replication isn't all that bad. Images stick around in their local instance, the federated data is all JSON payloads and metadata. Yes it will pile up over time, but only instances with hundreds of users and thousands of indexed communities are at risk of massive storage needs.

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