To be fair you’re on the most popular instance, the nice thing about federated stuff is you can join a smaller instance that’s not overloaded, and still have access the same content.
I wish they did a better job of explaining that on the lemmy site haha
That depends, if you subscribe to a community on another instance, as I understand it the only thing you would be accessing remotely is image uploads, text posts and all the other UI stuff is coming directly from your instance.
Big if True. Cool if True! I think I need a, um /c/explainlikeimfive (this sublem probably hasn’t been made yet, or maybe not… it’s the goddamn wild west out here) of how all these federated stuff actually works and if what you’re describing actually would lessen the load on lemmy’s servers. I work with servers hardware shit but web server software is magical to me.
To be fair you’re on the most popular instance, the nice thing about federated stuff is you can join a smaller instance that’s not overloaded, and still have access the same content.
I wish they did a better job of explaining that on the lemmy site haha
I wish they did, too. I thought it was different content for each instance.
But wouldn’t accessing content on the other instance be just as slow? How would making your own instance just for sign in be beneficial?
That depends, if you subscribe to a community on another instance, as I understand it the only thing you would be accessing remotely is image uploads, text posts and all the other UI stuff is coming directly from your instance.
Big if True. Cool if True! I think I need a, um /c/explainlikeimfive (this sublem probably hasn’t been made yet, or maybe not… it’s the goddamn wild west out here) of how all these federated stuff actually works and if what you’re describing actually would lessen the load on lemmy’s servers. I work with servers hardware shit but web server software is magical to me.