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?

    • 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