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

submitted 1 year 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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

that ansible book works great, its just a bash script away from regular user DiY.

I've watched people who never used a computer install blockchain nodes and miners (including the networks). If someone wants to do it, they WILL figure it out.

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

Sure I'm not saying they won't I'm saying there's not that many people who 'want' to beyond the effort of clicking install

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

my point is mainly that we are that close already. The ansible setup already boils it down to the bare minimum. its down to platform testing and building an installer.