Can Lemmy have distributed communities (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by Mastersord@lemmy.fmhy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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I was thinking about this in regards to all the “defederation” posts.

Let’s say you spin up a server and over night it gets super popular and grows enormous. Now your yearly expenses shoot up and you’re forced to either look for a new host or shut down.

Now what if instead, you could get a few other people to spin up more small instances and distribute parts of your biggest communities to them, however the users don’t notice because The communities are looking across instances instead of within their home instance?

That’s the idea at least. This would allow for many things but most importantly, it would make things a bit more manageable. Thoughts?

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[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think you can partition part of a sub across several instances right now. The best you can do is create an instance dedicated to one sub.

[-] Mastersord@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I’m asking if it could be developed as a feature and if it would solve some of the issues we all see.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

That kind of feature is the kind of feature major internet companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars on each year. I think that there are better things for the devs to focus on.

this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023

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