I have a domain name that I own but am not making use of and was thinking of setting up my own personal Lemmy instance, partly so I can have a Lemmy id and instance that I can completely control, partly so that I can contribute directly to my hosting cost, and partly because it might be fun to tinker with (or it might just end up being a pain; I’m still trying to figure out which is the case).

However, from this comment it sounds like, rather than contributing to horizontal scaling and easing the load on other servers, I might actually end up increasing the load on other servers by adding yet another server that the other servers have to talk to in order to keep my server updated on the latest comments and posts to which I am subscribed.

So given this, would self-hosting a personal instance actually make things worse for everyone else and thus be an irresponsible action at this time and/or for the foreseeable future? Because the last thing that I want to do is to inadvertently add a burden to the fediverse!

  • chiisanaA
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    11 year ago

    You can read the ActivityPub protocol… I don’t think it will become like bittorrent, as there peer-to-peer concept doesn’t seem to exist in the spec.

    Having said that, while we are running into implementation limitations on the larger instances, the problems are being tackled. A couple of us are chatting on !lemmyperformance@lemmy.ml and !lemmyfederation@lemmy.ml to see if we can come up with good ideas to present to the devs to help Lemmy scale. You’re most certainly welcome to join in on the fun!