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ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 months agoRelay (backend albeit rumored to be expensive)
Not even rumored, so much as explicitly expected.
The federation architecture allows anyone to host a Relay, though it’s a fairly resource-demanding service. In all likelihood, there may be a few large full-network providers, and then a long tail of partial-network providers.
WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
This doesn’t seem to be that big an issue as PDS’s can just directly communicate with one-another like how ActivityPub works.
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They’re supposed to be able to, true, but I’ve not come across any examples of that in action yet. If you know of any I’d be interested in seeing them, as I’ve been trying to keep up with AuthTransfer’s developments.
WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Isn’t that what Whitewind is doing?
ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hmm, if so, it wasn’t clear in the documentation I read. I was of the impression it was still passing posts through the relay to enable others’ discovery & interaction.