EDIT: we just crossed 30K 🥳

We are now at 28.5K users (see https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list). The top 10 instances also got a decent boost in user count. With the exception of beehaw.org which defederated, the Fediverse is thriving 🔥

  • pzza@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Load would not be distributed though right? Because all the user data / activity would just be copied to every federating instance. Fediverse is more about redundancy & lack of centralized control, rather than load balancing.

    • SickIcarus@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yes and no? Maybe? I’m still figuring out how all this works lol. I know that instances take on the load of their users and communities.

      • pzza@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 years ago

        As I understand it the federation protocol is copying all the data from instance to instance. I think data is probably going to be the most taxing part of running a social media site, but since all the data is replicated, there wont be much load sharing there. Each instance will be taking care of the cpu/load requirements of rendering/serving the pages for their users, so there is some scaling benefits there to distribution. Anyway, I’m also still learning as well! I think we all are lol