Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I’m a developer but have utterly no experience with torrent architecture, or for that matter anything outside of standard web services and the kinds of things companies do. But I’ve been wondering if BitTorrent technology would be usable for federating content for things such as Lemmy. After reading that somebody was begging for money to offset the $5k/month they were spending to run an instance, it seems like a distributed architecture would make a lot of sense. I just personally wouldn’t know where to begin, but maybe if somebody with the right combo of skills and experience gave it some thought…
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 6 days ago
2 years ago I talked about the core problem with federated services was the abismal scale ability.
I essentially got ridiculed.
And here we are, with incredibly predictable scaling problems.
If we refuse to acknowledge problems till they become critical, we will never grow past a blip on the corner of the internet.
dil@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Yeah, volunteer moderation is also an issue, any decent ppl doing it get burnt out if they get an influx of ppl and quit also like lemm.ee
squaresinger@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Lemmy also doesn’t make that easy, since it’s not like e.g. Reddit where everyone moderates on their own turf only, but each instance has to essentially moderate all other communities on all other instances too.