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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    1 year ago

    Yeah, I really do think we need both:

    !gaming@... or !gaming@ which aggregates !gaming@instance.a, !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.