Comment on From a networking perspective, does the Fediverse strike anyone else as "optimistic"?

stu@lemmy.pit.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• freamon@endlesstalk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I realize this. How well it works for User 2 isn’t super-relevant for User 1’s experience. And if you’re from a small instance, you’ll always be User 1. To me, it seems like the answer to if the page will successfully load for User 1 is ‘maybe’, and I guess I was questioning whether this is good enough.

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  • stu@lemmy.pit.ninja ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I see, well I guess the real question is whether it can be improved at the server/protocol level and my answer is I don’t know. There’s some handshaking that clearly has to occur between your instance and the other instance to load the initial community state and I don’t know where that process can be optimized. I think I’ve seen people mention tools that have been created to automatically subscribe a dummy account on your instance to all the communities on the largest instances to kind of bootstrap the process for other users, but I don’t have a link to such a tool handy.

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    • freamon@endlesstalk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think I’ve seen people mention tools that have been created to automatically subscribe a dummy account on your instance to all the communities on the largest instances to kind of bootstrap the process for other users, but I don’t have a link to such a tool handy

      They have a bot at lemmings.world that subs to the most popular communities. It’s mostly to benefit their ‘All’ feed I think, but I imagine it’s good for this circumstance too.

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      • Coelacanth@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        This is the tool that was mentioned if you’re interested.

        Discussion thread: lemmy.management/post/665809

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  • 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    On a smaller instance, the first link didn’t work for me :(

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