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Lemmy Federation Architecture Change Proposal
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this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2023
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I'm just guessing here, but maybe a better solution would be to just to separate the flows inside the same server, this way the hosts of those server can use have containers dedicated to each flow.
Also I don't know much about architecture so take it with a grain of salt and correct me if I'm saying something silly. We could separate the lemmy container to have an API and a federation container.
The clients still connect only to the API, the API offloads the federation requests to be sent to the specific container which can be hosted in another machine.
So we'll basically have the API and a message broker for the federation request, both being managed by the same admin since each host of a community should be responsible to send the updates to the users/instances subscribed.