I would like to create a user on Lemmy.ml, but it says that registration is closed. Is that a permanent situation or will it reopen eventually?

  • flip@lemmy.nbsp.one
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    1 year ago

    That sounds odd, can you upvote posts when you are using the web interface or another app?

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      1 year ago

      That’s because liftoff aggregates posts from multiple instances on its own, rather than relying on instances “federating” with each other. The benefit of this is that it gives you control of what instances you see content from, rather than the instance owners deciding for you.

      Personally, I think that makes way more sense than making instances “federate” with each other to share content. The only interoperability instances really need is the ability to post to communities that are hosted on other instances. We don’t need instances to be sending the entirety of all their content to each other; clients can aggregate that on their own.

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        1 year ago

        At the same time, federation allows citizen administrators to create and maintain new instances. Let us say there are 1000 instances with 1000 users each. It is relatively easy to host a server for 1000 people that federates with max 999 instances. And yet, one post can reach 1 million people.

        The same would be much harder for a private person and 1 instance that has to serve 1 million people.