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Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 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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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have my own Lemmy instance running on my home server, but I'm here. "But Bizzle," you may be asking yourself, "why go through all the trouble of configuring your own instance just to wind up on Lemmy.World anyway?"

I'm glad you asked! And the answer is that federation only fetches parent comments. I'm glad Lemmy exists, and I'm going to keep using it, but we need federated sibling comments for this to actually be good, in my opinion.

EDIT: I actually couldn't have been more wrong.

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

I would be happy if my locally posted comment showed up on lemmy.world at all :-) (If this one does, maybe I was just impatient with the initial sync or so)

EDIT: Nevermind, I was too impatient :-)

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

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying. Did you mean that child comments are not federated?

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

I don't think that's correct.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you're right, I may have misinterpreted the documentation. I attached a screenshot below.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So that's why there were no comments when I searched a post from a remote instance. You need to search the comments individually. It's kinda weird design imo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

once you subscribe to a community all new comments and posts get federated, but yeah if you just search for the post then you can't seethe comments unless you search for them