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As long as we make it clear to users "you can interact with content on other servers independent of your choice" and recommend instances in a way to distribute load, I think we can manage.
Something like recommending instances based on location or main content focus could also help.
The author is directly saying that the more instances you have, the higher load on each of them. Because they're all replicating and sending traffic to each other. Then again I don't know enough to verify that, and Lemmy seems to be working just fine for me for the past week.
There are technical ways to solve this. If we can identify some way for instances to determine users' interests and allow instances to query based on interests, that can reduce load. We can do all sorts of caching to reduce load even further.
It complicates the system, which is a risk, but it leads to a better user experience and better performance.
We just need the right people with enough time and desire to implement these kinds of technical solutions.
Guess it's time for me read the ActivityPub spec.
Source: "I used Mastodon for almost a year, just trust me bro."
For his argument, length of use doesn't matter. He's more concerned with the new user experience, which can be determined on the order of days.
His criticisms are valid. Getting started on the Fediverse sucks. Let's accept the criticism and get on fixing it
He seems to know what he's talking about and hosted his own instance for a long time, why specifically do you distrust the author?
