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Anyone want to collaborate on a new Lemmy UI? Built in Svelte in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I thought about Svelte + Tauri. Desktop but with Web flexibility. It also allows adding other fediverse as plugins.

Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Huh, so the problem is about just serving static assets? TBH, I think this problem should be mostly solved, especially for such minimalistic UI. Maybe some (free) CDN? Also UI can use any lemmy server for most of requests (e.g. fetched federated_servers fom a bootstrap node) and use "logged one" only for user actions. I think it isn't a terrible difficult task for the current ui (it has it's own backend).

Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, and this post about how to use some (a lot of) servers that are doing nothing to participate in "pros" while the top 20 of servers are suffering from these cons.

Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

[-] Averrin@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

As I said, there is no profit from empty instances. Of course, the federation itself is good and fail-proof in this way. But if nobody asks for this cache, it's just an Internet Archive of a sort.

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Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Averrin@lemmy.world to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

89 comments fedilink

Correct me if I'm wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I'm a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until you have a significant piece of auditory (e.g. private instances or servers with no users). Are there any "balancers" to utilize these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with such fast growth?

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Are all these thousands of servers useless? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Averrin@lemmy.world to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml

4 comments fedilink

Correct me if I'm wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I'm a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until you have a significant piece of auditory. Is there any "balancers" to utilise these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with a such fast growth?