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#lemmy /#kbin has a problem that #mastodon hasn't even attempted to solve; groups and what happens when they get popular. (mas.to)
submitted 1 year ago by schizanon@mas.to to c/technology@beehaw.org
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#lemmy/#kbin has a problem that #mastodon hasn't even attempted to solve; groups and what happens when they get popular.

#Communities, #groups, #magazines, whatever they are called are implemented as #Actors in #ActivityPub. They are basically just *very* popular users who boost a *lot*.

You can't just distribute them across instances the way normal actors do. Whichever server hosts @technology@lemmy.ml or @technology@beehaw.org is going to get HOSED on the regular.

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[–] schizanon@mas.to 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@sunaurus there's a lot of upvoting happening on popular subreddits

[–] sunaurus@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Absolutely, but a user will only upvote a post once, while they will read it on every reload of their page. (By "read" I mean "fetch it from their local mirror")

[–] awooo@pawb.social 7 points 1 year ago

Hmm, you could probably extend the protocol to do eventual consistency across instances if that ever becomes a problem, remote instances could keep their own counts and only send aggregated updates.