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?

  • library_patron@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    1 year ago

    I see—you’re talking about instances with no users? Yes, those don’t help much. Maybe edit the typo “a significant piece of auditory” in the original post, since I guessed that you were talking about instances with users but no communities.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it’s nothing about communities. Technically speaking, only the amount of direct HTTP requests matters. If nobody opens your domain, your instance is just spending your money for nothing.