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Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Averrin@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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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?

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[-] a1studmuffin@aussie.zone 52 points 1 year ago

This is a feature, not a bug. But we definitely need a solution to make subscribing/coalescing them easier for users. Mastodon allows subscribing to topics (hashtags) - I think something similar is needed here, but that will evolve naturally over time.

[-] NuclearArmWrestling@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Maybe have them coalesce based on channel name, but have local mods on each server. It'd be great if you could share moderation between trusted servers or trusted mods on different servers as well (this could be on a per-community or per-server basis).

[-] fuser@quex.cc 6 points 1 year ago

you don't have to have an account on the same lemmy server to mod a community on it. The creator of the community can add anybody as a mod.

[-] nx2@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

Yes. This is 100% necessary. Otherwise giant communities would be built and probably all on lemmy.ml

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