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Honestly, the complexity of federated services isn't for mass adoption. And /r/SanAntonio users are some of the last I would expect to see adopt lemmy. And I feel I'd have to get comfortable with it myself before recommending others, as that comes with the obligation to help them out.

Like, why do thse two instances of this post have 1 common comment, and 1 missing? https://beehaw.org/post/473716 https://lemmy.pineapplemachine.com/post/5781

Also, what's with this 'search ![email protected] on your instance to find this post and be able to comment on it' crap. I was linked to pineapplemachine from beehaw, maybe thats the other user's fault... idk. it's a real rough experience from the start.

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I'll definitely give it some more time, I thought I saw a post somewhere that Lemmy was being developed by 2 paid developers. Regardless, I may try my hand at contributing. I've got a degree in compsci and some experience on a few personal projects. But first gotta get my head wrapped around how all this works and then get digging through the code.

Just watched a video that mentioned the possibility of following a mastadon account from a peertube account, being able to communicate cross-instance and cross-application within the fediverse, which sounds like a neat ability. Though I don't see how to do that just yet. I'll keep poking around and reading.

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Hypothetical: What would happen if every user in the fediverse hosted their own server?

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But instance federation is an async process that is happening constantly. A user on your instance may be a realtime load, its only sporatic (on a per user basis). Basically, me spinning up an instance is a constant burden on the network, but me browsing is just a temporary load on a single server.

My understandings is that the best situation is a good number of powerful machines with instances with users evenly distributed amongst them.

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Is it the application you’re using? Something bugged on your system? Is it an older system where maybe that was a shortcoming?

I pulled up my Mac which I use to use with multiple monitors many times and tested again to ensure I wasn’t crazy and nope. I can have two different full screen apps open at the same time, one on each monitor.

Or a full screen on one, and the other just showing windowed applications with my dock visible.

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Hypothetical: What would happen if every user in the fediverse hosted their own server?

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But instance federation is an async process that is happening constantly. A user on your instance may be a realtime load, its only sporatic (on a per user basis). Basically, me spinning up an instance is a constant burden on the network, but me browsing is just a temporary load on a single server.

My understandings is that the best situation is a good number of powerful machines with instances with users evenly distributed amongst them.