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Hypothetical: What would happen if every user in the fediverse hosted their own server? (beehaw.org)
submitted 1 year ago by lucien@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org
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What would happen if instead of users swarming existing servers when a fediverse service was put in the spotlight, each user spun up their own micro-instance and tried to federate with existing servers?

There's always the odd person who decides to host a personal fediverse service in their homelab for themselves, but would the fediverse work if that was actually the primary mode of interaction? Or would it fail in a similar way to now where the servers which receive the most federation requests need to scale up?

Presumably the failure modes for federation are easier to scale than browser requests since it's an async process.

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[–] learning2Draw@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Possibly failure, because setup isn't just a simple or of box plop. And i can't see how pings from 5000 microservers is better than 5000 users looking to register? But that's more of a question than an informed opinion

[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

that ansible book works great, its just a bash script away from regular user DiY.

I've watched people who never used a computer install blockchain nodes and miners (including the networks). If someone wants to do it, they WILL figure it out.

[–] learning2Draw@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure I'm not saying they won't I'm saying there's not that many people who 'want' to beyond the effort of clicking install

[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

my point is mainly that we are that close already. The ansible setup already boils it down to the bare minimum. its down to platform testing and building an installer.

[–] lucien@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Next step is to spin up a cloud service which does all that for you, leaving you to just input a credit card and configure DNS correctly.

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