The first two points could be answered better by other people than me, since I’m not super sure on them either. But the third one is basically that. You can subscribe to all other instances’ communities regardless of which community you make an account on, so the lemmy model/fediverse itself is the solution/answer to how distributing wouldn’t make you lose any data. As long as even one person from your instance is subscribed to a particular community on a particular instance, that content will show up on your instance too, it’s basically instances that subscribe to each other.
Having bigger instances doesn’t really affect on the amount of in-house content as much as the costs of keeping up with it.
Interesting. I didn’t realize that user subscriptions are the connections across instances that drive the content. Is there a good fediverse write up that explains this stuff?
I’ve only read about it through various posts and discussions on lemmy itself, on their home instance and a couple others. Have yet to understand the ActivityPub model, even after looking at the code for a bit. If I find some clear documentation or post about it, I’ll share!
The first two points could be answered better by other people than me, since I’m not super sure on them either. But the third one is basically that. You can subscribe to all other instances’ communities regardless of which community you make an account on, so the lemmy model/fediverse itself is the solution/answer to how distributing wouldn’t make you lose any data. As long as even one person from your instance is subscribed to a particular community on a particular instance, that content will show up on your instance too, it’s basically instances that subscribe to each other. Having bigger instances doesn’t really affect on the amount of in-house content as much as the costs of keeping up with it.
Interesting. I didn’t realize that user subscriptions are the connections across instances that drive the content. Is there a good fediverse write up that explains this stuff?
I’ve only read about it through various posts and discussions on lemmy itself, on their home instance and a couple others. Have yet to understand the ActivityPub model, even after looking at the code for a bit. If I find some clear documentation or post about it, I’ll share!