Averrin

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

I thought about Svelte + Tauri. Desktop but with Web flexibility. It also allows adding other fediverse as plugins.

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

I read it and post from jebroa. At least latest alpha can do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ok, you are right about peering, I tried to get more peers to be faster, but it isn't necessary. I didn't find anything about ActivityPub broadcasting, but if it's true... so, yeah, having rpc p2p connection doesn't make the whole system less federated. But still, usually crypto clients has lists of nodes (or api balancers) for faster handling.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Huh, so the problem is about just serving static assets? TBH, I think this problem should be mostly solved, especially for such minimalistic UI. Maybe some (free) CDN? Also UI can use any lemmy server for most of requests (e.g. fetched federated_servers fom a bootstrap node) and use "logged one" only for user actions. I think it isn't a terrible difficult task for the current ui (it has it's own backend).

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

I know what you mean, but all nodes are equal, they are fully participating (stay aside validators). I mean every every node handles every transaction and can be faster than another (it doesn't matter due to validation scheme, but technically speaking all nodes handling every user action)

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

Because we are here because of content, made by users. I'm thinking about whole "lemmy-verse". If users encounter issues, they just stop using the service. You as an instance owner can choose to not participate. But if somebody already thinks rhat they helps, why not use it?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I think a amall hit of p2p can be useful. Maybe as an addition layer. I worked a lot with tendermint nodes (cryptocurrency) and i saw pretty effective solutions.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, and this post about how to use some (a lot of) servers that are doing nothing to participate in "pros" while the top 20 of servers are suffering from these cons.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I dont suggest adding a centralization =) I see two possible and actionable directions:

  1. Create tech solution to balance load through available resources
  2. Spread the word that there are better ways to spend your money and passion helping lemmy. I know, my "engineering manager" bias tends to see process problems in places where are no problems. But I dont want to see how the awesome idea is dying because of lack of basic management and foreseeing.
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'd like to help with this improvement. Do you know any plans for it? Honestly, looks like that there is no "lemmy committee" and even lemmy's developers cannot organize something like this. Any ideas?

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

Yeah, it's nothing about communities. Technically speaking, only the amount of direct HTTP requests matters. If nobody opens your domain, your instance is just spending your money for nothing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

> Because you can still access all content no matter where you are.

If you know how and want to do it. Unfortunately, it isn't the way how most people think.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I'm a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until you have a significant piece of auditory (e.g. private instances or servers with no users). Are there any "balancers" to utilize these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with such fast growth?

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Correct me if I'm wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I'm a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until you have a significant piece of auditory. Is there any "balancers" to utilise these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with a such fast growth?

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