You could do it as a DHT network (distributed hash table)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_hash_table

It would be interesting to see someone spin up an instance, no signups, just Lemmy-Federate. Check how much resources it uses up.

But for an instance that already has a lot of users it’s going to be a drop in the bucket. Any large communities probably already have a real user following them, and any small communities won’t have enough activity to cause significant load anyways.

I stopped starting to grow !photography@discuss.online because of that when I saw that !photography@lemmy.world was getting most of the posts.

Do you think there’s a technical reason for this? I wouldn’t expect this considering we have https://lemmy-federate.com/

Maybe it’s just the UX of Lemmy-UI preferring local communities?

Lance’s quote at the end of the article is so good lol, really cool that Mastodon has lived longer than Google+ already!

I think Mastodon is a bit rougher than Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin just because it’s centered around users instead of groups

WATMM archive here: https://watmm-archive.com/

and we’re using an RSS bot to pull Keyosc into Lemmy !keyosc@rss.ponder.cat

Yeah I’ve definitely thought of that issue too lol (I didn’t create that community), moving people is hard but maybe that doesn’t matter cause the community is kinda dead anyways

Oh that’s a great idea especially for a pictures community. That’s actually making me think about moving !deus_ex@lemmy.ml to fedia.io

Edit: I don’t think I see any Mastodon or Pixelfed posts there? I see a lot of LW

Yeah I generally agree with the OP but this is basically how I use !deus_ex_randomizer@lemmy.mods4ever.com

I don’t really expect other people to post there (but it would be nice!). But making that many posts in any other community would just be self promotion spam.

Or !stauf_mansion@lemmy.mods4ever.com maybe didn’t need to be created but that’d be a lot of posts for any more general community like !adventuregames@lemm.ee or !dosgaming@retrolemmy.com or !dosgaming@lemmy.world or any of the generic gaming/games communities.

I thought 3 was great, in line with the other 2

I looked at Fediverse Observer and it seems like LW is not growing as fast as the rest of Lemmy, so people are doing a good job signing up at other instances. Since January it looks like LW gained about 19% MAU, while Lemmy overall gained about 32%.

Almost down to 2. The past 24 hours has gone from 2.96 down to 2.14.

Taking 24 hours to bring the queue down by about 20 hours means it’s not quite twice as fast as the live data. It’s a great improvement but I think this isn’t completely solved yet. This could become an issue again possibly if LW doubles in size.

They already did, in 0.19.11

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2025-04-08_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.11

Dont render images in private message (#3043)

Kinda like https://quiblr.com/understanding_your_private_personalized_feed

But for Peertube instead of Lemmy? Sounds cool, I think Peertube needs it way more than Lemmy does

I just noticed this:

As of 0.19.0, Lemmy has a weekly scheduled task to delete activities older than a week. If an instance lags more than 7 days at the time this task executes on the sending instance it will lose activities.

Good thing they never got that far!

I don’t think he cares lol, he was annoyed about US defaultism so I told him about aussie.zone

Finally! I’ve been trying to get an Australian friend to join aussie.zone… it’s so hard to convince people 😭

I’ve tried to get GamesDoneQuick to at least bridge their Bluesky account to Mastodon, but no luck

They took forever just to make their Bluesky account as an alternative to their Twitter

you for sure it’s more than I expected, I was thinking of removing some of the feeds (like the generic Music Discussion) but maybe it’s ok

related feature request: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2318

more technical discussion here: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-3b86-activity-intents/4120/12