https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3245

I posted far more details on the issue then I am putting here-

But, just to bring some math in- with the current full-mesh federation model, assuming 10,000 instances-

That will require nearly 50 million connections.

Each comment. Each vote. Each post, will have to be sent 50 million seperate times.

In the purposed hub-spoke model, We can reduce that by over 99%, so that each post/vote/comment/etc, only has to be sent 10,000 times (plus n*(n-1)/2 times, where n = number of hub servers).

The current full mesh architecture will not scale. I predict, exponential growth will continue to occur.

Let’s work on a solution to this problem together.

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    1 year ago

    Nice but it kinda breaks the point of federation - who’s running the hubs? If it’s a company, then nice, we’re back to appeasing our corporate overlord. I

    If it’s a secondary federated system, nice now you’re just needlessly complicating things, as anyone could create a hub - you could end up with a lot of single spoked hubs.