32
How will lemmy scale?
(lemmy.world)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2023
32 points (100.0% liked)
Asklemmy
43822 readers
878 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
The ideal way that ActivityPub federation works IMO is a bunch of smaller nodes coming together to make a large network.
If you have a bunch of people all on one or two instances then you'll have a "central hub" of the network that's constantly overloaded.
That's my advice to community builders on this platform... Spread out across smaller instances, don't just all sign up to a big one.
Moving the scaling problem from a few instances to federation is likely to cause more harm than good.
I don't see how syncing a post across a hundred instances is more efficient than having a hundred users see the post on one instance.