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chilicheeselies@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Yeah i guess you could look at it that way. Each instance would have to scale horizontally to handle the load, which is waste.

I could be wrong, but my understanding is that ActivityPub is just a rest api contract that one can implement in order to communicate with the rest of the “network”. Its simple, but its such massive overhead to do this all via http. Pushing all your instances events to a dedicated stream and letting the other instnaces read it can be more performant and handle the load better. The downside though is who controls the streams?

IRC is the OG of federation, i am sure we could learn something from it and have federated networks that are in turn federated with eachother. I dunno, just thinking out loud here.

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