If the ideal setup is many medium sized instances rather than a few huge ones, wouldn't that mean users would need to subscribe to duplicate communities in all of those instances? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Otherwise, if we have a lot of medium sized instances but the most popular communities are hosted on just a few huge instances, doesn't that defeat the purpose of distributing load across many instances?

If that's the case, how do we solve the cumbersome user experience of having to subscribe to the same community over and over again across a ton of medium instances?

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[-] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 year ago

Admins simply need to take responsibility. If a community already exists in the Lemmyverse, I don’t allow it to be created on my instance.

[-] spiritedpause@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 year ago

That's the thing, if instance admins do that to avoid duplicate communities, won't that just mean that a few huge instances will be the ones with most of the popular communities, and have outsized sway/traffic costs?

Then we're back to square one and defeat the whole purpose of distributing load across many medium instances. Or am I misunderstanding how this works?

[-] antisuck@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I suppose the "best" way would be to distribute the big communities over different instances, like one instance gets "pics", another gets "memes", someone else gets "news", etc. But of course that will never happen.

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