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How will lemmy instances survive if they get too big? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by s0phia@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I know there's donations and the owners can use their own money, but there's a limit. I doubt a platform with hundreds of thousands of daily users can survive with only donations.

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[-] jcg@halubilo.social 3 points 1 year ago

One of the suggestions was a gossip protocol, which wouldn't need 100% (or close to 100%) uptime. Wouldn't be outside of the realm of ActivityPub either, it's not specific about how messages can be routed kind of like how Email can be passed around a bunch before actually arriving at their intended destination. It would be a layer on top of AP though so maybe Kbin wouldn't be able to join the network. For communities, the only one I actually saw Nutomic or dessalines be interested in is this fediverse enhancement proposal about making groups in such a way that can be hosted on multiple instances. A few large instances could come together to cohost and spread the load between them.

[-] sjatar@sjatar.net 1 points 1 year ago

When you say groups that is communities in lemmy terms? ^^ Not fluent in the terminology but with a functionality like this how would you receive older posts? Seems like newer linked instances would start with a blank slate from the point of "bounding".

Or am I just butchering the meaning with my understanding? hehe

[-] jcg@halubilo.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yes that's right, Lemmy communities are communicated as groups in ActivityPub, so that FEP would be applicable to communities

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