Correct me if I’m wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I’m a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until you have a significant piece of auditory (e.g. private instances or servers with no users). Are there any “balancers” to utilize these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with such fast growth?
I just spun up my own instance as well and it does feel a bit like I’m just pulling from the biggest instances and feeding my own without really being able to give much back.
You’re reducing load on the bigger instances by not using them directly, which is giving something back