Comment on Lemmy Federate - tool to help communities sync across instances
Blaze@feddit.org 1 year ago
Small disclaimer: some instance owners prefer to not enable it due to network and storage consumption: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28227815?scrollToComments=t…
I still think it will not explode bandwidth and storage, but I can’t argue because I don’t have any valid evidence :)
The reason I say this is that communities take up a few bytes in the database and if there is no activity (post/comment), they don’t use any bandwidth either.
However, I can’t say anything about the organic /all tab argument. It’s a matter of preference. Kind of funny one.
Yeah I’m one of those. Not only is there A LOT of data on the fediverse that I would have to pay to host, but there is A LOT of NSFW/nsfl things too. When I come across it I defederate it. It would be a flood of things if I just blindly federated with everyone
Just something of note, the program has options to not federate NSFW content in its settings, so it’ll ignore communities and instances marked as such.
Draconic_NEO@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s why it’s really important to have an option to share your own instance communities without receiving ones from others. Allows others to know of you, while not taking on more data load than you have to.