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?

  • john12@lemmy.sbs
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    1 year ago

    I just spun up my own instance as well and it does feel a bit like I’m just pulling from the biggest instances and feeding my own without really being able to give much back.

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      1 year ago

      You’re reducing load on the bigger instances by not using them directly, which is giving something back