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?
Yeah, I really do think we need both:
!gaming@...or!gaming@which aggregates!gaming@instance.a,!gaming@instance.b, … etc. that I’ve subscribed to into a single feed; and#gamingwhich I can put!gaming@...,!pcgaming@..., and!consolegaming@...into a single collection.This way we’d get the flexibility to pick and choose what we’d want to see more easily.