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Federation is pretty cool (lemmy.ubergeek77.chat)

submitted 1 year ago by ubergeek77@lemmy.ubergeek77.chat to c/lemmyworld@lemmy.world

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I noticed my feed on Lemmy was pretty dry today, even for Lemmy. Took me a while to realize lemmy.ml has been going up and down all morning, and isn't federating new posts.

But, since this is all still federated, I can still create and read posts on other instances while I wait. Even this one! Any other service would just be unavailable completely right now.

I do miss the larger communities on lemmy.ml - asklemmy, memes, and I really wanted to watch the reddit fallout on /c/reddit. Maybe I'll look around for some good replacements for those. Open to suggestions!

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[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah good point actually. Independent servers is a strength but not future proof. Allowing larger servers to store back ups that other instances can link to in the event of down time, or allowing themselves to be absorbed if they shut down would keep the place running, there would just need to be a system in place where an instance can nominate another instance to hold a spare set of keys, so that duplicates don't start fracturing the system.

[–] Debo@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

It's fractured by design. There are good things about being fractured. What we actually need is a "fractured" system with an aggregator to ensure the best user experience. You've heard of a system like this before: Cryptocurrencies are by nature 'fractured' but they use the term 'decentralized' and it's what brings safety and security to digital assets. What we need is a "Coinbase" or a "Binance" who "aggregates" all of the "coins" so that a user can just go to the exchange and see ALL of the digital currencies without having to know each of their names and server addresses in advance.