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  • Thanks for the in depth write up! I haven’t looked too far into the docs or the subscription model, but is this a fault on Lemmy’s end, or is this a function of how activity pub handles federated communication? (I’m very new to activity pub/federation, just now reading through the activity pub docs)

    I do like your idea of distributed replication via keys,much better than what I had brainstormed

    Edit: yeah it does look like it’s a function of activity pub, wonder if theres a more scalable federation protocol out there














  • The one thing that I am worried about for a decentralized future is incentives.

    What keeps a federalized service owner going over the years? Donations alone won’t account for server costs, let alone time spent maintaining code or moderating communities.

    Most successful open source projects offer enterprise packages to sustain incentivization, or are a subset of a megacorp that releases (off of the top of my head: canonical, hashicorp, apache, mongodb, k8s, chromium, android, redhat) and the list goes on.

    Most, if not all, of the donations based or FOSS projects that I have seen over the years lose traction because the hobby wears off for the core maintainers.