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Are all these thousands of servers useless? (self.fediverse)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Averrin 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 andthe 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. 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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[–] mikehunt 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Being able to host a mirror of an existing instance for load balancing would be cool. It would allow us who have available resources to be able to contribute without the hassle of setting up and moderating an entire instance.

[–] Averrin 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Dee 6 points 2 years ago

It's still fairly new, hopefully that's a feature that can be prioritized and added soon.

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

Do you know how to make this mirroring as seamless as possible?

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

I'm pretty sure that there isn't a mirror feature and I think it's not a trivial one to add