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#lemmy /#kbin has a problem that #mastodon hasn't even attempted to solve; groups and what happens when they get popular. (mas.to)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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#lemmy/#kbin has a problem that #mastodon hasn't even attempted to solve; groups and what happens when they get popular.

#Communities, #groups, #magazines, whatever they are called are implemented as #Actors in #ActivityPub. They are basically just *very* popular users who boost a *lot*.

You can't just distribute them across instances the way normal actors do. Whichever server hosts @[email protected] or @[email protected] is going to get HOSED on the regular.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Out of curiosity, how is kbin's magazine system designed to avoid this problem?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Ok, from what I understand now, a magazine can follow tags or keywords, which will populate the magazine. So no matter where in the fediverse something is posted, it will show up in the magazine.

But then if the instance hosting the magazine goes down YEAH OK I GET IT NOW

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It’s not