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Okay, that might work for smaller groups. I guess my head is too much focused on hyper-scaling, which might actually not be the goal here... Other than scaling
by akuji1993 7y ago
Okay, that might work for smaller groups. I guess my head is too much focused on hyper-scaling, which might actually not be the goal here... Other than scaling / hardware space, I think the idea is great btw. My first post sounded very negative, I actually like the idea a lot.
- robjan 7y agoThink the idea is to have lots of small communities which can communicate with one another. If this ever takes off, I am sure that for-profit instances will eventually be founded as well and they may/may not contain ads as part of their business model.
- eitland 7y agoI think you are correct now; a number of fediverse projects actively seek to avoid getting big. For example pixelfed creator has closed signups on his instance and mastodon encourages people to sign up for different instances (and I a number of existing mastodon instances has also closed signups because they are big enough, and everyone except banned users and instances can just federate anyways.)
- nerdponx 7y agoThat's the point of federation, so you don't have to worry about scaling any one particular host. As long as the network can scale, the community and product can grow. That will depend onhaving efficient clients and servers, and a well-designed protocol.