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I'm seeing discussions on other instances about how a "federated" corporate instance should be handled, i.e. Meta, or really any major company.

What would kbin.social's stance be towards federating/defederating with a Meta instance?

Or what should that stance be?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Mostly, one instance creating a massive load of traffic, making the overall load on the smaller instances heavier as they pull in posts to which others are subscribed. I'm not sure if it would be a huge problem, though?

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

It certainly could be. Each server is responsible for keeping track of activity on the network. It hasn't been an issue so far since all the "big" servers are relatively equal and the overall network is still small. If Kbin suddenly had to process and record every single Reddit comment/thread, it would be a massive drain on CPU resources and immediately cause data issues as Kbin just doesn't have the data capacity that a giant company is capable of building out. Federating all the things may not be viable in the organic future, but we would get there much quicker if a mega server started dumping messages hard.