• ChappIO@waveform.socialM
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    1 year ago

    On the one hand, yeah you’re right. But large social media actually work the same way. Reddit will run hundreds of servers and keep a copy of the data on every server. It’s one of the easiest ways to scale. Except with Federation, it’s not a single company running those servers.

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      1 year ago

      I guess the only true way to be certain of things in the federated world is to run your own instance and connect to other instances. Ultimately I do plan to do this with a few things, primarily moving myself off Mastodon.social and onto my own self-install on my own domain, the goal being that I’d have no other users beyond accounts for each of my music monikers and a ‘personal’ one. I’d love to have a books.mydomain.com instance of BookWyrm too if I can muster the enthusiasm to set it up.

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        1 year ago

        Of course, you can, in theory, also sign up to an instance and then move to another instance. I know there are guides for this portability when it comes to Mastodon, but not sure how it works for things like Lemmy and BookWyrm.