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Load would not be distributed though right? Because all the user data / activity would just be copied to every federating instance. Fediverse is more about redundancy & lack of centralized control, rather than load balancing.
Yes and no? Maybe? Iโm still figuring out how all this works lol. I know that instances take on the load of their users and communities.
As I understand it the federation protocol is copying all the data from instance to instance. I think data is probably going to be the most taxing part of running a social media site, but since all the data is replicated, there wont be much load sharing there. Each instance will be taking care of the cpu/load requirements of rendering/serving the pages for their users, so there is some scaling benefits there to distribution. Anyway, I'm also still learning as well! I think we all are lol
Yeah, also still learning of course, but that's my understanding of why Beehaw.org defederated. Too much new data getting copied over.