#lemmy/#kbin has a problem that #mastodon hasn’t even attempted to solve; groups and what happens when they get popular.
#Communities, #groups, #magazines, whatever they are called are implemented as #Actors in #ActivityPub. They are basically just *very* popular users who boost a *lot*.
You can’t just distribute them across instances the way normal actors do. Whichever server hosts @technology@lemmy.ml or @technology@beehaw.org is going to get HOSED on the regular.
@schizanon @technology@lemmy.ml @technology@beehaw.org Yep. I expect that long-term a lot of instances will limit the ability to create groups (as Beehaw does) or place restrictions on the size a group is allowed to grow before asking that group to move to another/their own instance or ask for finances to help with the costs.
So there is no way to horizontally scale?
The network can actually scale quite well thanks to the fact that other instances will act as mirrors of communities!
But what happens when the instance hosting the community goes down? Are all external instances still able to participate in that community? I get that they are mirrored but will everyone still be connected?
If it’s just a temporary outage, whatever the mirror has received prior to the outage will be shown to users on that other instance but only local interactions for that instance will update it, when it comes back up, things like votes and comments will be synchronized again across all of the instances.
For permanent outages, the community will just need to be started again on a new instance.
Out of curiosity, how is kbin’s magazine system designed to avoid this problem?
What does hosed mean, technically?