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LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The expense of running busy servers is too much to expect of anyone. I haven’t even tried to figure out how the math would work but I wonder if the ultimate solution could be more of a BitTorrent architecture where the “server” is a hive of users’ computers all sharing the load? I’m a software developer but have never worked on anything in that area. Comments?
The expense of running busy servers is too much to expect of anyone
We have to think about that a lot of people on the fediverse today ( and that number only grow the more people join ) that are normies. They expect it work the same exact way anything else works. And they won’t know or care to know any of the underlying technical things about it.
TeddE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Personally I think self-hosting (Docker containers and stuff) would be a good solution, but for the Fediverse that would mean making a ‘family size’ edition of the server software.
I imagine if it became a common hobby and every geek interested supported ~4-25 friends, it might work.