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#lemmy/#kbin has a problem that #mastodon hasn't even attempted to solve; groups and what happens when they get popular.

#Communities, #groups, #magazines, whatever they are called are implemented as #Actors in #ActivityPub. They are basically just *very* popular users who boost a *lot*.

You can't just distribute them across instances the way normal actors do. Whichever server hosts @[email protected] or @[email protected] is going to get HOSED on the regular.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If it's just a temporary outage, whatever the mirror has received prior to the outage will be shown to users on that other instance but only local interactions for that instance will update it, when it comes back up, things like votes and comments will be synchronized again across all of the instances.

For permanent outages, the community will just need to be started again on a new instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But they could pick up where the now defunct community left off, right? Like, the cached copy from another server could be imported on a new server elsewhere?

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

That functionality doesn't currently exist, but migration of communities is something that's being actively talked about for development.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reading this and trying to visualize the big picture, I think this is where kbin's magazine is going to win out in the end

[–] Whooping_Seal 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Out of curiosity, how is kbin's magazine system designed to avoid this problem?

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