Comment on Angry, disappointed users react to Bluesky's upcoming blue check mark verification system
sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks agoI’m sad that bots in space had to spin down, but there are still bots on Mastodon. One server quitting didn’t take everything down.
The part where if a mastodon post gets popular, it has to serve that to everyone makes sense because it’s kind of like a website. Maybe there could be a CDN like Cloudflare that a mastodon server could use to cache responses?
The part about Bluesky that doesn’t sound good to me is “to send a message to one user is to send it to all”. Wouldn’t this be crazy with even 100 servers for 10000 users, vs 2 servers with 5000 each? Not sure how the math works but it doesn’t look good if they have to duplicate so much traffic.
Natanael@infosec.pub 2 weeks ago
It doesn’t get served to all, but it has to be served to a relay which in turn is reachable by all.
While there is a firehose service which publishes all events as they happen, only services built in watching those needs to receive all (moderation services, etc). Everybody else gets a view already filtered and composed by services earlier in line.
A limited scope appview and relay is possible too, you can choose to only serve one community, and then fetch external content on-demand (but this will have the same impacts on latency as Mastodon and lemmy has when opening previously unseen threads)