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Hypothetical: What would happen if every user in the fediverse hosted their own server? (beehaw.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What would happen if instead of users swarming existing servers when a fediverse service was put in the spotlight, each user spun up their own micro-instance and tried to federate with existing servers?

There's always the odd person who decides to host a personal fediverse service in their homelab for themselves, but would the fediverse work if that was actually the primary mode of interaction? Or would it fail in a similar way to now where the servers which receive the most federation requests need to scale up?

Presumably the failure modes for federation are easier to scale than browser requests since it's an async process.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Maybe I'm wrong (I'm on Lemmy since yesterday morning) but if you host your instance you're only caching the communities you are interested in ...if you never care about a community or interacted with an instance then those data will never reach your instance. Federated doesn't imply full redundancy

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Didn't mean to imply that it did mean full redundancy in the cache - what you're saying just shifts the equation more in the direction of federation with many small instances over hosting all the users on the instance itself

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

This is correct, and it’s also worth noting that the remote comments are not “backfilled”, so you don’t get to read all the old stuff