I am an academic and outdoors enthusiast who supports the free and open exchange of information. We need to stop the trend of social media companies closing data access to researchers, open source developers, and the general community.

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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Construing their decision as a desire to fracture the community is missing the actual reason they’ve tried to articulate. It’s a temporary stopgap for the 4 admins who just weren’t expecting the sort of volume and associated misbehaving problems they are suddenly getting.

    Thanks for this explanation, this makes a lot of sense and makes me less concerned about the whole thing.

    Serious question though, if a server defederates, do the communities hosted on other servers just become completely un-moderated? This seems like a serious liability for the overall community.













  • Its somewhat related, yes. Each time you do something in the web browser like upvote, that gets sent to your instance (e.g. lemmy.world). Then, the instance needs to update the other instances with that action (this is called publishing the action). Meanwhile, it needs to accept actions from other instances (these are actions that the server is subscribed to). All of these actions take server time and network so there is a queue of actions (think of this as each action standing in line waiting for its turn with the network/cpu).

    You can optimize this a lot because each time you open a network connection and send something, there is some cpu and network cost above and beyond the action itself. So there are smart ways to group things together. But, the challenge is that such grouping adds delays (e.g. it may take longer for a moderator’s removal of an offending comment to propagate to your server).