Wouldn’t it all just come crumbling down if every user spun up a server?
this post was submitted on 05 Dec 2023
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Probably, but we know that this is only a hypothetical question because in reality this will never happen.
Why is that?
As I understand it, fediverse has a lot of syncing overhead (it takes a lot of bandwidth and processing to share content between all the servers). The more servers there are, the more overhead is used for syncing.
While lots of servers is good for resilience, and diversification of communities, going to the extent of every individual hosting a server seems like an overburdensome extreme.