Comment on From a networking perspective, does the Fediverse strike anyone else as "optimistic"?
RickRussell_CA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My main concern is the long-term cost of compute and storage. These instances aren’t going to be free, and hopefully we can build a funding model that works.
o_oli@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Especially since, and correct me if I am wrong, but every instance holds all of the data for all of the other instances too? (that they are federated with).
This means there is an insane amount of redundancy no? With hundreds or thousands of servers the cost would eventually become prohibitive and need to rely on only a select few large servers and thus Lemmy doesn’t ‘solve’ the issue it tries to in that sense.
Or, maybe it’s only the bandwidth that becomes an issue and the data storage is actually minimal. If that’s the case I can see more how a smaller server could afford to be part of the ecosystem. Perhaps also down the line if not already there could be a cut off point for historical data to avoid bloat.
freamon@endlesstalk.org 1 year ago
Just the text I think. It’s not nothing, but if you upload an image to your instance as part of a post, the text is copied to my instance, but with just a link to the image, so it could be worse.
o_oli@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ahhh, ok that makes far more sense actually then. Text alone isn’t too bad especially if there are some optimisations available along the way.
PupBiru@kbin.social 1 year ago
not all the data afaik, but all the data for subs that it’s users are subscribed to