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  • You should be able to rerun it anytime. It only gets stuff that doesn’t exist on your instance. That’s how it was designed. It is dependent on browse.feddit.de however. :(

  • I think you're right. People will gravitate to the most stable large instances because their "All" will be as close to 100% as possible without doing anything special. I wrote a script to seed instances and update subscriptions, but it uses a single account that is subscribed to everything so that other users can see everything. That's not something that would normally happen. Maybe that needs to be part of the base software?

  • Media takes up space. The text from posts and comments is trivial. The database for lemmy.world is only 25 GB. Wikipedia text is only 21 GB.

  • That is exactly what that means and it's frustrating to say the least, because it's not clear that's what's happening.

  • It works a lot like like email between instances. Let’s call your self hosted instance “A” and the popular remote instance “B.”

    User on A searches for “poodles” and finds a community !poodles@B. When they click the search results: A sends B mail saying “send me the last 10 posts for poodles.” B sends A mail with the posts and the user sees the posts, but none have comments.

    If nothing else happens then those 10 posts will just hang out doing nothing on A, but if the user clicks subscribe then A sends another mail to B saying “my user wants to follow poodles.” B replies saying “cool, I’ll send you everything from poodles now.” Now, anything a post or comment happens B checks lots list of subscribing instances and sends copies of them.

    If user on A comments on !poodles@B or posts, it creates it on A but sends a mail to B saying “here is some new stuff for poodles!”

  • 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?

    Run my own instance. @Candelestine@lemmy.world is right but there are more details. Federation is not a "sync." When your instance needs to fetch from another instance it will, but it does not get history. You can get a specific comment or post from any time however.

    Or perhaps you only need to download and store everything that is posted to the federated Lemmy instances from that point forward?

    This is not by default either. Only communities that your users subscribe to will be updated by their "origin" instances.

    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)?

    This does happen, but it also stores what your users do on remote instances as well as "copies" of what they interact with. Images (currently the only media hosted by lemmy servers) are linked to thier "origin" as well. So you are storing text of posts and comments.

  • We should charge for API use now. :)

  • They want to start an instance for star wars fans because they like captain picard.

  • I think the exception is companies “too big to die.” They serve as the archangels of tech so ALL other goals lead to being bought by FAANG or dying.

  • Can confirm, same from at least a few other instances.

  • I am not ambitious enough unfortunately, and probably not smart enough either.

    It's a game of leapfrog and it's at a little bit of a stalemate because people just pay $5/mo. for a VPN. It was a monetization race and that's were we landed. I'm sure copyright holders are not happy with that, but there's no incentive to develop or change anything because who doesn't have $5/mo?

  • It used to be that just being on the internet made you trusted enough to get the warez. I don't know how to keep the movement alive with big brother watching out for his homies so hard. Decentralize, encrypt and anonymize I suppose. BT needs an overhaul to prevent attribution. Ten bucks says it's easily possibile but the VPN companies who have our back will lobby against it, lol.

  • Came here to post! Beat me to it.

    I think it's geography based. Works for me from the west coast (usa) but not the east. :(

    Only found out because coincidentally DEVOPS IS GITHUB. So yea, I guess add another non-critical thing to the playbook.

  • Welcome. We don’t call ourselves lemmings. The preferred term is lemons.

  • Federation transmits new content only. That delta is because the OG community (!asklemmy@lemmy.ml) existed longer than it's "copy" at programming.dev. The subscribers refers to local subscribers only, which on lemmy.ml will be ALL subscribers.

  • The thing with piracy these days is there is a huge fear of legal burden AND extreme protectiveness to prevent takedowns. It's the same thing as being a gang member and suspicious of new blood being undercover cops. Once you find actual piracy that works, the last thing you want to do is post publicly about it!

  • I like how someone put it in another thread. From the "defederaters," The argument most seen is: "if there's a nazi at the table and you say nothing, it's a table full of nazis." The most common counter-argument is "it's actually like a stadium full of people with some nazi's in the corner jerking themselves off." From the "federators," the most common argument is "defederation defeats decentralization," and the most common counter to this is simply: "fuck off nazi!"

    I find the whole situation quite extraordinary to see unfold and be a part of.

  • 100%. Work together on stability, resilience and privacy while ignoring trolls? Hell no! Let’s focus on creating silos and sniffing our own farts first!