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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. (mas.to)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 (1 children)

No. The "single source of truth" is the instance hosting the community. If it goes down the community itself goes down with the ship. The only way to prevent it is to have a IT infrastructure that can provide redundancy

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

Yeah, that isn't good.

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

having a redundant system is feasible (I'm just a dev, not an architect so don't take my words for granted) but it have to be designed and putted together ... and prices are gonna skyrocket

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lemmy / the fediverse isn't designed this way, but it could be. There are certainly systems that share diskspace and are multimaster and keep stuff as long as someone is interested in it(i.e. accessing the data). I really start to think added to the lemmy / fediverse servers should be something like what freenet used to do in terms of hosting content.