Federating servers
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In FEP 1b12, that is what occurs (most of the time) - as soon as an instance has a dozen users their interests will be varied enough that almost every active community in the threadiverse is subscribed to and they'll be receiving almost all the traffic.
It works out ok at our current scale (small).
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@evan in the Mastodon sphere, boosting a post has these side effects:
- servers that receive the boost will now be aware that the boosted post exists. if it contains hashtags, then that post might show up in hashtag timelines/searches and the home timelines of anyone following that hashtag.
- servers will also be aware that the author of the boosted post exists. their profile can appear in search results based on their account's name/summary.
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@evan personally I think "server federation" is best achieved through relays.
The distribution model fits best, and the technology already exists, even if not broadly implemented.
One could be able to plug a server instance actor in to subscribe to its relay.
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@julian yes, I agree. This is a different idea -- that somehow interaction between actors on different servers will make their servers connect and share data. It's incorrect, but it's interesting.
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@evan oh I see what you mean... that a server merely discovers another, and that kickstarts a mutual sharing of activities.
I'm afraid that would be a bit of a scaling challenge
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@julian here's an example I found with a search:
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Here's another:
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@silverpill@mitra.social really? How does it work?
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Does it use the relay method?
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That makes sense.
When I implemented the Litepub style relay logic I figured it would immediately work the same way as well (since two-way relay communication uses the Follow-Accept flow as well.)
It did not work immediately with NodeBB, have yet to figure out why
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