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?

  • enzyesha@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    5·
    2 years ago

    I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. Did you mean that child comments are not federated?

      • rideranton@fedia.io
        5·
        2 years ago

        Seeing as we’re viewing this from many different instances, it certainly sounds like a configuration issue on their side

      • Bizzle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I think you’re right, I may have misinterpreted the documentation. I attached a screenshot below.

        • LookThere@fedia.io
          2·
          2 years ago

          So that’s why there were no comments when I searched a post from a remote instance. You need to search the comments individually. It’s kinda weird design imo.

          • Klaymore@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3·
            2 years ago

            once you subscribe to a community all new comments and posts get federated, but yeah if you just search for the post then you can’t seethe comments unless you search for them