Yep. Add in a 3rd instance and now you have 3 copies of the database, essentially. It’s just that each instance is responsible about telling the fediverse when updates occur to communities on their instance.
The post is a few years old and is quoting data that is a few years older still… but assuming that they’ve doubled in size since, there’s only 10TB of data for text, comments, etc… (i.e. no images).
Now I’m assuming this is compressed btw. (The link in the post is dead so I can’t actually check out the file and see what’s in there).
Yep. Add in a 3rd instance and now you have 3 copies of the database, essentially. It’s just that each instance is responsible about telling the fediverse when updates occur to communities on their instance.
If the fediverse gets really big, lets say the size of reddit, it may be hard for all the different instances to store all that data on their servers
Ya, ActivityPub isn’t without it’s issues… but luckily it’s all just text. Much of that can be compressed significantly.
I wonder what the total data storage size is for all the publicly viewable content on reddit. I find it hard to even guess lol. 100TB? 10,000TB?
Btw I did just find this: https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/pqxs8m/size_of_reddit/
The post is a few years old and is quoting data that is a few years older still… but assuming that they’ve doubled in size since, there’s only 10TB of data for text, comments, etc… (i.e. no images).
Now I’m assuming this is compressed btw. (The link in the post is dead so I can’t actually check out the file and see what’s in there).