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[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Relay (backend albeit rumored to be expensive)

Not even rumored, so much as explicitly expected.

The federation architecture allows anyone to host a Relay, though it’s a fairly resource-demanding service. In all likelihood, there may be a few large full-network providers, and then a long tail of partial-network providers.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This doesn't seem to be that big an issue as PDS's can just directly communicate with one-another like how ActivityPub works.

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

They're supposed to be able to, true, but I've not come across any examples of that in action yet. If you know of any I'd be interested in seeing them, as I've been trying to keep up with AuthTransfer's developments.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Isn't that what Whitewind is doing?

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Hmm, if so, it wasn't clear in the documentation I read. I was of the impression it was still passing posts through the relay to enable others' discovery & interaction.

[–] WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago

I could be mistaken too, this has all only recently become interoperable so there's some growing pains