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Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Averrin@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[-] Lantier@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I can attest sibling comments are meant to be federated (example thread from another instance: https://lemmy.world/comment/97687), but I was here at the very start of this instance and there were federation issues. Posts not showing, comments not showing on other instances. It's all very new so there may be technical issues.

this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2023
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