• @machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    We need more instances, but we need to be a lot smarter about the structure. I think we will only be able to grow larger if we make a more intentional separation between topic-based instances and “people-home” instances, so that we can have a better spread of the load.

    I don’t know if it would help with load-balancing, but I feel hash tags would be better than communities.

    • @rglullis@communick.newsEnglish
      6•3 months ago

      This goes against the design of ActivityPub, which requires people to follow actors. A hashtag does not have a single name, so people would have to follow all servers and/or the servers would have to relay activities that are not originating from their actors. It is possible, clunky to implement.

      • @obbeel@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
        2•3 months ago

        I agree that the hashtag scheme is bad. It attracts people that want to self-promote or bots.