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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    1 year ago

    That’s a really good analogy. Still, there needs to be an easier way to search remote communities. Copy pasting community links in search bar is really clunky.

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      1 year ago

      It would be really nice if the search would show all communities in federated servers, and maybe communities in servers federated with those severs, etc.