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"Building a Platform Like Twitter Is Not Difficult"

Oh really. Id say the chance of not existing in just a few short months is quite a hurdle to building something like a twitter. The fediverse has the right idea by nitting together many thousands of small communities into one cohesive whole such that the load on any one entity is never very large and off the shelf consumer hardware or vps services are capable of running it. This also distributes costs around making each entity pay a manageable amount

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Reddit Wave and the Threadiverse

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You seem like the right person to ask. If a user on instance b makes a comment on a post that is on an instance "a l" community my understanding is instance b sends that comment to instance a and then instance a sends messages to instances c, d, e, f, and so on telling them about the new comment?

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Overwhelmed a bit with fediverse redundancy.

They all talk to each other.

From my mastodon account i can:

  • follow sublemmys
  • follow lemmy users
  • comment on lemmy posts
  • comment on lemmy comments
  • share lemmy posts
  • share lemmy comments

From my lemmy account i can:

  • follow mastodon users
  • comment on mastodon users posts
  • comment on mastodon users comments
  • crosspost mastodon users posts to sublemmys

While i have never used kbin i have no doubt that it can do everything listed above.

Really the fediverse is a "choose your own interface" kinda place. Do you understand reddit UI best? Use lemmy. Does twitter UI make sense to you? Use mastodon. Do you like both? Use both for different reasons. Either way you can interact with anyone, using anything, anywhere that uses activitypub and anyone, from anywhere, using anything supporting activitypub can interact with you. That is the whole point. Get rid of the silo social media so you never have to lose your social graph again because you moved to a new service they are not on

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

I dont think so. As an example, take the ![email protected] community for example. It can have say 1000 subscribers from lemmy.ml but only needs to send content to lemmy.ml once as it comes in. All 1000 subscribers see the cache copy from lemmy.ml and a message is only sent back to beehaw.org for comments, votes, etc. With everyone having their own instance beehaw.org would have to send updates to each one instead of sending an update to one instance and 100 users seeing it. A good level to strive for is many small communities of say a few thousand (1-5 thousand or so). That way one single server doesnt get to massive but federation requests arent overwhelming instances either