Looking at the Linked Instances, most instances have at most a few hundred instances linked. What happens when there are thousands, or possibly even millions? Could too many instances require significantly more powerful hardware, or even be impossible altogether?

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[–] birdwing@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In other words, it's better to have multiple of the same communities among different instances, and not too big either?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

Generally I think duplication isn't great because it means people subscribe to all of them and cross-post in all of them. A lot of client apps don't deal with this well, yet.

I mean just have a community for cats on instance 1 and a community for dogs on instance 2.