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Are all these thousands of servers useless?

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There are two points:

  1. Instance owners aren't ready to be a community manager and moderator. Also, a big instance costs much more. Many people just want to pay their 5$ in month and passively make their contribution.
  2. Not all users are "power users". They want to consume content. To make federation successful, we should provide a smooth UX. Balancers, meta-account, something like this. Smart enough to require only one click and utilize all available resources.

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Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?

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Ok, you are right about peering, I tried to get more peers to be faster, but it isn't necessary. I didn't find anything about ActivityPub broadcasting, but if it's true... so, yeah, having rpc p2p connection doesn't make the whole system less federated. But still, usually crypto clients has lists of nodes (or api balancers) for faster handling.

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Huh, so the problem is about just serving static assets? TBH, I think this problem should be mostly solved, especially for such minimalistic UI. Maybe some (free) CDN? Also UI can use any lemmy server for most of requests (e.g. fetched federated_servers fom a bootstrap node) and use "logged one" only for user actions. I think it isn't a terrible difficult task for the current ui (it has it's own backend).

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Well, how is everyone enjoying the game so far?

I'm around 40lvl, just started Act 3. It's a diablo, as I wanted to see it. It lacks some qol features. And sometimes its a bit tedious (maybe it's just about me getting older). I played barb and necro on beta. Now my main is rogue and it's not an easy point'n'click. I want more skill buttons (at least 5th for ultimate), but it's interesting to test different builds. So, I'm totally happy with this diablo. Imo, it's better than diablo 3 in many aspects. But a little boring visually.

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Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?

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Yes, you are right. If this instance has members. A server will actively fetch "foreign" content and cache when this instance's user asks. But aside of top 10 servers, there is no profit of having more until they have a couple of dozens of users. If any server would have been able to "delegate" request handling to less busy servers, it will be a solution for this uneven load.