• @machininEnglish
    2•1 month ago

    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]English
      6•1 month ago

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

      • @[email protected]English
        2•30 days ago

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

    • @[email protected]English
      6•1 month 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.