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I was told that I should post this here.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/932750

Say you decide to self-host a Lemmy instance. When you create that instance, do you immediately need to download and store all the data that has ever been posted to all federated Lemmy instances? Or perhaps you only need to download and store everything that is posted to the federated Lemmy instances from that point forward? Or better yet, do you only store what the users on that instance do (i.e. their posts, and posts to the communities hosted on that instance)?

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[-] russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net 4 points 3 years ago

It'd be really cool if we had something similar to Mastodon's "Relays" where you basically subscribe to a firehose of posts from everyone whose on a server connected to that relay (they show up in the "Federated Timeline").

I don't know exactly how this would work for Lemmy, but it seems like if we had a system like this it could really help tackle this issue.

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