I had a “bearstein effect” moment just now. I had thought wireshark sold out. Like “Wireshark by Rapid7,” but i just checked and it looks like they’ve stayed the FOSS course! Way to go!
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I had a “bearstein effect” moment just now. I had thought wireshark sold out. Like “Wireshark by Rapid7,” but i just checked and it looks like they’ve stayed the FOSS course! Way to go!
I actually wrote it with the flip side of your centralization argument in mind. If a community exists outside of the popular ones a user may never even know of its existence. Having more show up SHOULD be better to prevent centralization no? It requires the users to change their browsing behaviour but at least they don’t have gonsearching offsite.
When you create that instance, do you immediately need to download and store all the data that has ever been posted to all federated Lemmy instances?
Run my own instance. @Candelestine@lemmy.world is right but there are more details. Federation is not a “sync.” When your instance needs to fetch from another instance it will, but it does not get history. You can get a specific comment or post from any time however.
Or perhaps you only need to download and store everything that is posted to the federated Lemmy instances from that point forward?
This is not by default either. Only communities that your users subscribe to will be updated by their “origin” instances.
Or better yet, do you only store what the users on that instance do (i.e. their posts, and posts to the communities hosted on that instance)?
This does happen, but it also stores what your users do on remote instances as well as “copies” of what they interact with. Images (currently the only media hosted by lemmy servers) are linked to thier “origin” as well. So you are storing text of posts and comments.
I love the idea of taking on a monopoly, but I don’t like that, without regulation, it has a low chance of success, and the consumer gets to suffer as the monopoly fights back.