Correct me if I’m wrong. I read ActivityPub standards and dug a little into lemmy sources to understand how federation works. And I’m a bit disappointed. Every server just has a cache and the ability to fetch something from another known server. So if you start your own instance, there is no profit for the whole network until you have a significant piece of auditory (e.g. private instances or servers with no users). Are there any “balancers” to utilize these empty instances? Should we promote (or create in the first place) a way how to passively help lemmy with such fast growth?
That’s a really good analogy. Still, there needs to be an easier way to search remote communities. Copy pasting community links in search bar is really clunky.
It would be really nice if the search would show all communities in federated servers, and maybe communities in servers federated with those severs, etc.