It would be interesting to see someone spin up an instance, no signups, just Lemmy-Federate. Check how much resources it uses up.
But for an instance that already has a lot of users it's going to be a drop in the bucket. Any large communities probably already have a real user following them, and any small communities won't have enough activity to cause significant load anyways.
I stopped starting to grow !photography@discuss.online because of that when I saw that !photography@lemmy.world was getting most of the posts.
Do you think there's a technical reason for this? I wouldn't expect this considering we have https://lemmy-federate.com/
Maybe it's just the UX of Lemmy-UI preferring local communities?
Lance's quote at the end of the article is so good lol, really cool that Mastodon has lived longer than Google+ already!
I think Mastodon is a bit rougher than Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin just because it's centered around users instead of groups
Yeah I've definitely thought of that issue too lol (I didn't create that community), moving people is hard but maybe that doesn't matter cause the community is kinda dead anyways
Oh that's a great idea especially for a pictures community. That's actually making me think about moving !deus_ex@lemmy.ml to fedia.io
Edit: I don't think I see any Mastodon or Pixelfed posts there? I see a lot of LW
Yeah I generally agree with the OP but this is basically how I use !deus_ex_randomizer@lemmy.mods4ever.com
I don't really expect other people to post there (but it would be nice!). But making that many posts in any other community would just be self promotion spam.
Or !stauf_mansion@lemmy.mods4ever.com maybe didn't need to be created but that'd be a lot of posts for any more general community like !adventuregames@lemm.ee or !dosgaming@retrolemmy.com or !dosgaming@lemmy.world or any of the generic gaming/games communities.
I thought 3 was great, in line with the other 2
Oh that's my bad for not reading the whole thing lol
Edit: I should've tried reading
You could do it as a DHT network (distributed hash table)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table