an ELI5:
When you set up a lemmy instance, it has no idea other instances exist. It’s like throwing you into a web browser with no search engine. You don’t immediately see every single website, you have someone tell you about a cool website you found, and then you type it into the address bar, and save it.
It’s kind of the same thing with Lemmy instances and communities. Once a user types this syntax into the search prompt:
!community@instance.comIt will try and contact instance.com for that community. If it exists, the user can subscribe and the instances will now receive and send new posts to each other.
Mastodon has this issue too, fwiw.
I wouldn’t say it’s an issue. Great way to make new instances not be flooded with 500000 submissions per second.
This is actually bad for the instance. It costs a lot more resources to send and fetch submissions from a bunch more instances.
That juicy /all feed though, worth it.
Eh, even with a LOT of subscriptions lemmy really isn’t that heavy.
It’s the outgoing federation (I hear) that really starts taking more resources
Lemmy ain’t heavy…it’s my brother!
A real Stakhanovite of the fediverse!
