Fediverse

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A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

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600 more active users in the last few days, from 47225 to 47827 in two days (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/fediverse

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[–] machinin 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

We need more instances, but we need to be a lot smarter about the structure. I think we will only be able to grow larger if we make a more intentional separation between topic-based instances and "people-home" instances, so that we can have a better spread of the load.

I don't know if it would help with load-balancing, but I feel hash tags would be better than communities.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Isn't that just Mastodon and similar services? I prefer the community url scheme more that the hashtag scheme.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I agree that the hashtag scheme is bad. It attracts people that want to self-promote or bots.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

This goes against the design of ActivityPub, which requires people to follow actors. A hashtag does not have a single name, so people would have to follow all servers and/or the servers would have to relay activities that are not originating from their actors. It is possible, clunky to implement.