My fediverse use - I'm hosting everything myself - PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy
My fediverse use - I'm hosting everything myself - PeerTube, Mastodon and Lemmy
To really own your content, I think you need to host it yourself. The fediverse makes it possible.
To really own your content, I think you need to host it yourself. The fediverse makes it possible.
Wouldn’t it all just come crumbling down if every user spun up a server?
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.