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?
This seems like a great solution, does it work this way? I admit I’ve not delved too much into how federation works, but I assumed that when content gets pulled from one instance to another it gets replicated to that other instance, so deletion becomes problematic.
In any case, being in complete control of one own’s online presence seems like a great way forward.