Yes and no, if you have enough users you do not need federation for a server to not feel empty. But overall many servers do not have that many users, so federation with larger ones is essential.
Comment on PSA: the federation problem is still present in Lemmy 19.1, the GitHub issue has been reopened
Levsgetso@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Lemmy has been feeling pretty empty the past couple of days. That just really goes to show how important federation really is.
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
I noticed that as well, thought maybe things were just slowing down, but it’s good to know it was the software and not a sudden drop in community involvement.