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Are all these thousands of servers useless? (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 year ago by Averrin@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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 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. Is there any "balancers" to utilise these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with a such fast growth?

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[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Smaller instances are more likely to be abandoned/shut down, which currently means you lose your account.

[–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure but does it matter? You are supposed to be pseudo anonymous here, so switching accounts now and then is only a good thing in my opinion.

So you have to resub to your communities and you lose your posting history.

But this is not reddit. You are not supposed to build up karma on a account, and stay with it for years and years. :)

[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Even if I accept that for Lemmy (which I don't), Lemmy isn't the only app in the Fediverse. With something like Mastodon, you build followers; starting over is not a good thing. And Mastodon users can follow Lemmy users (and Kbin users), so you could still lose followers even if you're primarily on Lemmy.