@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
2026-09-26 04:11 UTC
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@skeyby@punk.kitchen 2026-09-26 09:57
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social My opinion is that there is one huge gap at the moment, that is a cross instance search capability da could allow you to search an hashtag across the fediverse even if the content was not on your node. That forces ever instance owner to join relay and have a local copy of huge amount of data nobody will ever see just because someone someday might search for it. That is the part that doesn’t scale well. On the contrary if one could cross search, he would find an interesting account to follow even if it was in remote side of the world and could start to follow it. So the question is not “does the distributed model scale well”, the question is “do the relay that keep everything aligned scale well?” I have already seen big instances with a lot of active users dropping relays simply because the ratio between useful storage/users works best for them without actual federation duplicating post in a different language or on totally different topics than their focus.
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@smellsofbikes@mastodon.social 2026-09-26 04:21
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social the obvious one is that it would need proportionately more moderators and that's already a lot of work for a lot of volunteers.
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@zdl@gamerplus.org 2026-09-26 04:32
@juergen_hubert@mementomori.social I'm pretty sure that the safety tools will require a great deal of rethinking. Currently safety is dumped as a workload onto instance owners; instance owners who are not given any reasonable tools for doing that job. I'm an admin over here, for example, on gamerplus and in July to August we got flooded by a bunch of AI-based bot-made accounts. It was a daily chore to go through the new accounts and decided quickly if a new account was a fake bot account or a real one. 🧵 ▶️