• Grander@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The problem for those operating a Lemmy instance is that they are hosting copies of the content of all federated instances.
    If that’s genuinely the way it works, it seems really dumb.

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        1 year ago

        Fetch data from instances you’re trying to access, rather than hosting everything on all servers. That seems like a quick way to get half the fediverse defederated from each other.

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          That’s exactly what happens. But you have to store the fetched data on your instance if you want to display it there.