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?

  • perkele@sopuli.xyz
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    17
    ·
    1 year ago

    What there needs to be is concerted development focus on fixing these quality of life issues. Unfortunately, there was not much time allowed for this to happen seeing as it was about a week or two from the announcement to the start of the blackout. These things take time and development time isn’t always available.

    • Sploosh the Water@vlemmy.net
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      2
      ·
      1 year ago

      True, but the big surge in popularity should help with getting more positive pressure on the community devs to improve things rapidly.