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I thought this was an interesting post and discussion on selfhosted. Thoughts?

Some great points, but it's nonsense to say r/selfhosted isnt about selfhosting. I've learned so much there.

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[–] sk@hub.utsukta.org 42 points 3 days ago (7 children)

I think federated networks are healthier and better in the long run. Also there should be more smaller instances so the load is not too heavy to bear for any one instance.

[–] sk@hub.utsukta.org 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@Saiwal For instance specialized communities like #^https://selfhosted.forum/communities should be made use of instead of having all the communities on a single instance. This would be more sustainable and cost effective for the admins too.

[–] shnizmuffin@lemmy.inbutts.lol 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This (along with basically all instances with communick news behind them) is a classic example of scaling up prematurely.

When this community is brimming with so much content that users start to "miss" posts about [thing x] because there are so many posts about [thing y], then you make offshoot communities, not before.

[–] sk@hub.utsukta.org 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

@shnizmuffin I agree. I am not complaining, just saying what could be an ideal scenario. Someone on the reddit thread complained about their instance becoming too large too soon and they had to shut down, so was reflecting on that.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They probably used on of these federation "helper" scripts that just siphons up the entire fediverse. That is just a bad idea and results in a bloated database like they were complaining about.

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