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Cake day: March 25th, 2022

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  • What are instances

    Instances are servers in the Fediverse, such as your lemmy.zip. In the case of Lemmy, these are servers on which Lemmy runs.

    what are federated

    Federated is a statement about the connection between instances. lemmy.zip is federated with lemmygrad.ml and vice versa. This means that you can post/comment from lemmy.zip here in lemmygrad.ml, and lemmygrad.ml users can do the same on lemmy.zip.

    defederated

    Defederated means that the administrators of an instance have severed the connection (the federation) to another instance. For example, lemmy.world defederated lemmygrad.ml. If your account were there, you wouldn’t even be able to see this post. For lemmy.world users, it’s as if lemmygrad.ml doesn’t exist.

    You can see which instances lemmy.zip is federated with and which ones the lemmy.zip admins have defederated at https://lemmy.zip/instances.















  • Matrix is bloatware.

    The resource consumption for chat rooms is absolutely ridiculous compared to XMPP and IRC. It’s so bad that I now believe the protocol is inherently flawed or absolutely unsuitable for realtime messaging.

    • XMPP: Good mature protocol but poor client ecosystem.
    • Matrix: Unsuitable protocol for realtime messaging with relatively good client ecosystem.





  • Is this to be Lemmy’s future? I think that we don’t have to worry much about this.

    The fact that lemmy is open source will ensure that sooner or later someone will develop a solution to the problem if it gets too bad.

    The motivation of the lemmy developers is actually to develop a good platform. Unlike reddit where the only and sole motivation is money, that makes a huge difference.