Comment on Bad UX is keeping the majority of people away from Lemmy
Die4Ever@programming.dev 1 week agoWould I be decreasing people’s operating costs if I just opened an account on example.lol so most of my interaction was on my home instance?
Likely no. If one person on the instance is subscribed to a remote community, everything is synchronized anyways. If no one is subscribed to the remote community then it’s probably a very small and low activity community anyways, which means it’s a drop in the bucket difference.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
So is a large part of lemmy.world cached on sh.itjust.works’ server? Does Pixelfed, Loops or Peertube work the same way? I could see images or video being more of a burden to serve like that. Or does AP sync the metadata like thumbnail, video title, description, comments etc. and the video itself is torrented straight from the host server?
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 week ago
Pretty much, yes. Images is cached. Video is not. However PeerTube supports P2P.