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Lemmy Federation Architecture Change Proposal
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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The same problem can also be solved with signed messages, like the HTTP Signatures used by Mastodon and most of the other microblogging fedi servers. Signatures allow a message to flow peer-to-peer instead of requiring a direct connection. You would only need a connection when actively interacting with a post on another instance, and its very unlikely that all 10K instances would be interacting with each other. Most likely, the network will consist of smallish groups of loosely-related instances plus a few giant servers that can handle the load of being popular.
That, honestly, wouldn't be a bad idea either. That should in theory help break up a lot of the load which is currently overly centralized.
The implementation should be a lot easier then my purposed idea as well, and it also has side effects of potentially improving security.