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?

  • Amby@dataterm.digitalEnglish
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    1 year ago

    It’s kinda the same issue that some games have, like MMOs. People tend to make new accounts on the biggest and overloaded servers because there is the most activity even though stability could be an issue, or login queues.

    It’s funny you mention MMOs, because FFXIV has a system that i’m now realizing feels like federated websites.

    You have your home world(server) where your character was created and is stored server side, but you can matchmake within your data center as well as visit other servers in your data center.

    And then you can also temporarily transfer to different data centers (though the implementation is clunky and has a few restrictions)