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Can you explain how federation works on protocol level?
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this post was submitted on 29 Dec 2024
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Sure, but potentially after at least one of the instances subscribed to the bot goes down and someone realizes what's happening. It's incredibly easy to overwhelm a small server's database just by subscribing to a lot of communities the normal way. The difference here is potentially any instance federating the bot in both directions is susceptible to this.
The impact across the fediverse vs just one instance would be the main difference. Plenty of people are using that bot having no real idea of what it's doing.
That's just a part of the learning process, IMO. My instance crashed many times, I've fixed it every time and now it's better than before. And I don't think I've had my last fuck up with the instance.
And that's fine for you, I'm not knocking the experimenting and learning process. That was the whole reason I spun up an instance myself.
What I'm saying is that to the other users that would be impacted by these things, it sucks. People are patient to a point but the fediverse has a lot of odd quirks that make it more difficult than it should be to use for a lot of people. Things have gotten better in the last year or so but it still feels like we're asking people to know more than they should have to just to figure out that Lemmy isn't empty. Many people will get frustrated and leave long before they start making excuses for a site they don't know anything about.
It's easy to sit around proclaiming that reddit sucks but the fact of the matter is that it's easy to use and everything they have to offer is covered under one domain. Again, I don't have the solution to these things for Lemmy, but we can't deny that this platform is harder to use than most and a lot of people aren't going to handle that well.