Hrefna (DHC)Jan 27, 2025

Like if you have a bunch of perfectly spherical individuals running around in a frictionless vacuum sure it makes sense.

But in the real world where you have like… actual networks to deal with, and partitions, and security patches, and spammers, and CSAM, and… to deal with.

We need to consider the degree to which this fetishization of single user servers is meaningfully coherent as a strategy.
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Hrefna (DHC) (@[email protected])

@[email protected] People fetishize this idea of one person servers, but it's really not a good idea on multiple levels (on SO MANY levels, really) even to the degree that one can technically do it.

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@hrefna I actually like that fediverse promotes the concept of an affinity group being the smallest most efficient unit
Show threadHelgeJan 27, 2025

I can take the affinity group naming one step further. I think the following example illustrates pretty well, when running your own server saves network resources.

Let's call a group of people that mostly follow each other an echo chamber. Then running a Fediverse server for this group probably saves cost. Why? Most of the traffic generated from following other people stays inside the server and thus doesn't have to travel through the network.

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@helge @hrefna

> Let's call a group of people that mostly follow each other an echo chamber.

let's not

Jan 27, 2025 at 2:36pmWeb