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What are some downsides of software being federated? (lemm.ee)
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[โ€“] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

I expect as federation becomes more common we'll see patterns like user servers, community servers, archive/redundancy servers, and eventually it'll be less clustered. My instance that this version of me is on is much snappier than lemmy.world but it's also federated differently and that's very obvious when searching or browsing all

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  • [โ€“] 0 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah I'm not exactly clear over why federation differs either. Its designed not to differ I assume?

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 3 years ago

    It is actually! The idea is you can join servers with certain levels of curation. For example if lemmy.world decided tomorrow it didn't like blahaj.zone it could defederate them. That's not the point of blahaj.zone but think of it like having multiple reddit accounts with different subscriptions each account is like a superpowered multireddit on it. You choose the subreddits that go in the multireddit but not that the account it's on subscribes to

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