[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I thought about Svelte + Tauri. Desktop but with Web flexibility. It also allows adding other fediverse as plugins.

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Ok, you are right about peering, I tried to get more peers to be faster, but it isn't necessary. I didn't find anything about ActivityPub broadcasting, but if it's true... so, yeah, having rpc p2p connection doesn't make the whole system less federated. But still, usually crypto clients has lists of nodes (or api balancers) for faster handling.

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Huh, so the problem is about just serving static assets? TBH, I think this problem should be mostly solved, especially for such minimalistic UI. Maybe some (free) CDN? Also UI can use any lemmy server for most of requests (e.g. fetched federated_servers fom a bootstrap node) and use "logged one" only for user actions. I think it isn't a terrible difficult task for the current ui (it has it's own backend).

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I know what you mean, but all nodes are equal, they are fully participating (stay aside validators). I mean every every node handles every transaction and can be faster than another (it doesn't matter due to validation scheme, but technically speaking all nodes handling every user action)

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I think a amall hit of p2p can be useful. Maybe as an addition layer. I worked a lot with tendermint nodes (cryptocurrency) and i saw pretty effective solutions.

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, and this post about how to use some (a lot of) servers that are doing nothing to participate in "pros" while the top 20 of servers are suffering from these cons.

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

> 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.

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, you are right. If this instance has members. A server will actively fetch "foreign" content and cache when this instance's user asks. But aside of top 10 servers, there is no profit of having more until they have a couple of dozens of users. If any server would have been able to "delegate" request handling to less busy servers, it will be a solution for this uneven load.

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Please elaborate, how is "every instance is sharing in the traffic to browse the fediverse". I didn't find it nor in AP standards, nor in activitypub_federation lib docs. If there is some mechanisms of balancing inside the lemmy's code, would you mind pointing it for me?

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

There are two points:

  1. Instance owners aren't ready to be a community manager and moderator. Also, a big instance costs much more. Many people just want to pay their 5$ in month and passively make their contribution.
  2. Not all users are "power users". They want to consume content. To make federation successful, we should provide a smooth UX. Balancers, meta-account, something like this. Smart enough to require only one click and utilize all available resources.
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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?

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, this is exactly my point. But I suppose a lot of people think that starting new instance is enough. But, unfortunately, it isn't.

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submitted 1 year ago by Averrin@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

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 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. Is there any "balancers" to utilise these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with a such fast growth?

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah. 3rd had more various and visually pleasing locations. I really want domething like jungles or the heaven. Didn't spoiled it to myself, maybe they are latter in game. But I doubt.

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