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We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

As someone who's new to the fediverse, can you (or others) explain a bit more about how the costs of an instance might affect us? I was pondering this a bit yesterday; at the end of the day, hosting an interactive site at scale can get very expensive.

Specifically:

how does the fediverse model address costs at scale?
what happens if an instance closes? How does that affect content hosted there, as well as user accounts registered there?
I figured joining a large instance would be the best thing to do (more content and engagement), but now I'm wondering if that's at all true. Maybe a smaller instance is less likely to grow so much that costs are a problem, and the fediverse model itself provides the cross instance content?

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

The first two points could be answered better by other people than me, since I'm not super sure on them either. But the third one is basically that. You can subscribe to all other instances' communities regardless of which community you make an account on, so the lemmy model/fediverse itself is the solution/answer to how distributing wouldn't make you lose any data. As long as even one person from your instance is subscribed to a particular community on a particular instance, that content will show up on your instance too, it's basically instances that subscribe to each other. Having bigger instances doesn't really affect on the amount of in-house content as much as the costs of keeping up with it.

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

Interesting. I didn't realize that user subscriptions are the connections across instances that drive the content. Is there a good fediverse write up that explains this stuff?

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

I've only read about it through various posts and discussions on lemmy itself, on their home instance and a couple others. Have yet to understand the ActivityPub model, even after looking at the code for a bit. If I find some clear documentation or post about it, I'll share!

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