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Federation is pretty cool (lemmy.ubergeek77.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I noticed my feed on Lemmy was pretty dry today, even for Lemmy. Took me a while to realize lemmy.ml has been going up and down all morning, and isn't federating new posts.

But, since this is all still federated, I can still create and read posts on other instances while I wait. Even this one! Any other service would just be unavailable completely right now.

I do miss the larger communities on lemmy.ml - asklemmy, memes, and I really wanted to watch the reddit fallout on /c/reddit. Maybe I'll look around for some good replacements for those. Open to suggestions!

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[-] Debo@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

We have to solve the content curation problem IMO. If we all love lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works and post 1000's of hours of content to either and one of them just "shutters" the server then all that content is GONE. Or, am I missing something about how all this works?

If we want to "join" servers we need some type of content migration tool that allows the user to determine where their content is actually "hosted".

We may see individual servers for heavy content creators as they'll want some way to ensure that all of the federated servers can continue to access their content right?