Thinking of moving to sh.itjust.works from lemmy.world - one question about the rules though...
If I post nsfw onto a community hosted on lemmynsfw, for example, from the sh.itjust.works account, would that breaking the no pron rule, or not necessarily, since it’s posted on a different instance?
I don’t think that is actually true…
OK let’s make a test. I have 2 accounts on sh.itjust.works, this is my lemmy.fmhy.ml account. I’ll attach a pic, see where the link points to.
The link says lemmy.fmhy.ml 🤷.
Yeah, you’re right… but I think the problem is, the login info… but, than again, how could it store copies of my post, but not images.
In any case, I do agree that this is something that should be looked into and discussed.
Huh. Well that just makes no sense structurally. Thanks for pointing it out though.
How does this thing work at all? You would expect it to all be hosted to the site the community is hosted on. So now when a comment thread is fetched, it has to go to all these other servers for every single comment from another instance. This is actually mind-boggling.
Does anyone have an ELI5 for why it’s done this way?
Breaking out old reliable. This comment has taught many Lemmings in its short time
Yes, I’m certain I could final answers to all these questions via research, but I’m coming here as part of the Reddit diaspora. My guess is that there’s a benefit to others like me to have this discussion. I can vaguely understand the federation concept, the idea that my account is hosted at an individual Lemmy server and that other servers trust that one to validate my account. What’s the network flow like? I’m posting this to the lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml] /asklemmy community, but I’m composing it on the sh.itjust.works interface. I’m assuming sh.itjust.works hands this over to lemmy.ml [http://lemmy.ml]. How does my browsing work? Is all of my traffic routed through sh.itjust.works? Assuming there’s a mass influx of redditors, what does it look like as things fail? I’m assuming some servers can keep up under the load and some can’t. If sh.itjust.works goes down under the load, can I still browse other servers? Or, do those servers think I should have some token from sh.itjust.works, because my cookies say I’m still logged in, and I can’t even do that? Are there easy mechanisms to allow me to grab my post history? I’m assuming most (all?) Lemmy servers are hosted in home labs? The idea of Lemmy excites me, but the growth pain that could be coming scares me. Anybody using a CDN in front of their servers? That could be good, but with unconstrained growth, that could be costly, which is very bad. I can imagine lots of different worse case scenarios, but I’m curious what those of you who run servers imagine for the best case scenario? A manageable growth that just gets more vibrant communities, which can’t ever lead to the breadth and variety of Reddit? Also, for those running servers, have any of you experienced issues during this growth? What scares you?
Basically everything goes through your instance. If you make a post, it goes to the copy of the community that’s on your instance. Likewise if you comment. If you join a community, your instance starts listening for changes and stores those on the instance.
That way if another instance goes down, you still have a copy of all of the content there that someone on your instance is interested in. So that way pretty much everything is backed up.
I personally think we can do better, but it’s an easy enough system that all but guarantees that content doesn’t disappear. You could even set up an instance that never deletes anything if you want to make sure you don’t lose any data.
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