Seems to me the fear of overloading one instance over another will not happen after all.

But I do hope the Threadiverse can hit 500,000 consistent active users by the end of summer.

Give me that hopium guys! 💉

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    Maybe it would be confusing to add this but your second point could clarify that you can interact with any other instance so long as:

    • lemmy.world hasn’t defederated from them
    • That instance hasn’t defederated from lemmy.world

    For instance (accidental pun), I believe behaw.org is/was defederated from lemmy.world. Additionally, I believe I heard that lemmy.world defederated from lemmy.online (the reddit spam instance).

    I know my instance is also currently discussing defederating lemmy.online among other choices

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      Yeah I generally leave the whole defederation nonsense for a followup when it seems like someone needs the bigger picture explanation, otherwise things get lengthy. But you are technically correct, which we all know is the best kind of correct.

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        That’s fair, I tend to get too technical in my explanations anyways. Completely fair if you left that piece out for simplicity

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      Lemmy.online was taken down, from what I can tell. Pretty much everyone told that admin what he was doing was a bad idea and something that no-one wanted. Most instances defederated the site and I think he gave up.

      I think a key point that a lot of people don’t understand is that data from communities on different instances doesn’t replicate to your instance unless a user cross-subscribes to that specific community. If you build an instance and want !memes@lemmy.world to show up on your instances ALL feed, you have to subscribe to it with at least one account by browsing to your@instance.com/c/memes@lemmy.world and hitting the sub button. Only then will the content replicate.

      Server federation between two instances doesn’t magically connect all the communities, but once the users have subbed, they’ll be able to see the content they want to see on these smaller instances. The process to get all the data replicated over is just a little more convoluted than it should be.