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

Yup. I signed up for Lemmy.ml before I realized that. I think it'd be really helpful if the instances set a cap on number of users, so theat when you went to join-Lemmy.org and saw that beehaw has 1.9k users OUT OF 2k, then it'd be more likely to sign up for a different instance.