Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! (And a new lemmy instance)
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 weeks agoI always tend to push back on people saying “oh, the Fediverse is so complicated”, but small quirks like this make me go “well okay they have a small point”.
I understand why lemmy-federate.com probably has to remain an op-in service, but man would it be so much smoother if it was just automatic.
lemmy-federate is the wrong solution to this problem. It duplicates data on all instances, even those with no subscribers.it increases the load and the amount of storage requirements for small instances
What we need is a system where admins can set up a separate discovery service, and include that in search results. Mastodon is finally doing something in this direction, and Lemmy/PieFed/mbin would benefit a lot to adopt it.
Agreed.
I’m pushing for major Piefed instances to be able to network together, so when one instance addsor federates a new community - it will automatically network to other piefed instances.
That admin instance function would of course, have to remain optional though - as small personal instances would find that welcome - but it would automate a lot of this.
MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
This particular thing IS common-sense technicality. Without it, every new instance, the second it came online, would start to try and mirror THE ENTIRE FEDIVERSE.
The ideal would be some kind of in-between, but that’s a lot more complex, and involves the developers making decisions for you int terms of what to pull in and what not to.
Coelacanth@feddit.nu 3 weeks ago
Yes, hence why I said I understand why it needs to remain opt-in. It still doesn’t change the fact that it’s a burdensome and inconvenient quirk.
Not that I have a better solution to propose either, mind. Feels like one of those things that just is what it is, an unfortunate downside of the federated design.