• rglullis@communick.news
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    3 months ago

    We already have instances that go down or suffer from intermittent federation issues when lemmy.world gets a bit more active. The most conservative estimates are putting Reddit at 75 million DAU. If we get to 1% of that, you can bet that our current network would choke, badly.

    Not only we need more instances, we also need to be a lot smarter about their organization and how to architect this network. I think we will only be able to grow larger if we make a more intentional separation between topic-based instances and “people-home” instances, so that we can have a better spread of the load.

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      3 months ago

      We need more instances, but we need to be a lot smarter about the structure. I think we will only be able to grow larger if we make a more intentional separation between topic-based instances and “people-home” instances, so that we can have a better spread of the load.

      I don’t know if it would help with load-balancing, but I feel hash tags would be better than communities.

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        3 months ago

        Isn’t that just Mastodon and similar services? I prefer the community url scheme more that the hashtag scheme.

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          3 months ago

          I agree that the hashtag scheme is bad. It attracts people that want to self-promote or bots.

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        3 months ago

        This goes against the design of ActivityPub, which requires people to follow actors. A hashtag does not have a single name, so people would have to follow all servers and/or the servers would have to relay activities that are not originating from their actors. It is possible, clunky to implement.