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

submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years 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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[-] SomethingBurger@beehaw.org 8 points 3 years ago

The feature I'll miss the most from Reddit is multireddits. I wish there were a way to create multilemmys.

Even a simple option where a pseudo “!Community@” (with no instance) feed that aggregates all the “!Community” regardless of instance that you’ve subscribed to, might go a long way.

I think we should have both this and multilemmys. For example, I would group all !gaming@... communities in an pseudo-community, then put it in a multilemmy with other gaming communities (Linux gaming, PC gaming, etc).

[-] chiisana@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Yeah, I really do think we need both:

!gaming@... or !gaming@ which aggregates [!gaming@instance.a](/c/gaming@instance.a), [!gaming@instance.b](/c/gaming@instance.b), ... etc. that I've subscribed to into a single feed; and

#gaming which I can put !gaming@..., !pcgaming@..., and !consolegaming@... into a single collection.

This way we'd get the flexibility to pick and choose what we'd want to see more easily.

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