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Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.
Imagine a world without platform lock-in, where no ban or billionaire could take down your social network. That’s what ActivityPub has planned.
I have hope but my big concern is the scalability/efficiency of the thing. SOOoo much data is getting copied and duplicated across the federation links, and in some ways that’s good, but it also bloats the overall cost of operation and that bloat makes it all the harder for altruism and donations alone to keep things afloat.
I agree with your points, in particular your concern about duplication. I really hope that eventually, with more development, things like grouping communities on the user-end and even merging them on the server-end would be possible.
With organisation, I could see the mods of similar communities coordinating to redirect traffic to a “main” one, or even creating a distinct instance like how ststrek.website has.
It’s a working experiment in decentralized governance, so we all need to think of ourselves as citizens of lemmy/the fediverse and members of communities.
My instance admin is trying to govern via consensus, I’m enthusiastic and interested, if a little nervous it won’t work well.