Correct me if I’m wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I’m a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until you have a significant piece of auditory (e.g. private instances or servers with no users). Are there any “balancers” to utilize these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with such fast growth?
…it’s not like reddit didn’t have the same problem.
Users were free to set up multiple subreddits for the same topics, often differing only on a matter of opinion on how the sub should be run.
Lemmy is the same. You’re going to have obvious instances where the community makes most sense and attracts the largest population…eg lemmy.ca would naturally have the most populated /c/ontario community. However, should /c/ontario be run in a way that is not suitable to others for any reason, there isn’t anything wrong with starting another ontario community on lemmy.ca or even something totally different like sh.itjust.works.