I’m beginning to see that in order for lemmy to be truly federated, users must also become federated

I don’t know if it’s intentional or not, but you’re describing cyclical groups

Imagine if the public transport system wasn’t rubbish and your girlfriend could travel in the same 30 minutes?

Public transport isn’t the problem, it’s the solution

I’m interested to know why more people aren’t recommending kopia, it seemed like the obvious choice when I evaluated them but perhaps I was just wrong?

Why is that?

I’m not super familiar with torrenting protocols, but would have naively assumed that the very fact that subs have a single source of truth (e.g. selfhosted@lemmy.world is hosted on lemmy.world in its entirety, and then only cached on other lemmy instances) would be enough?

I guess we’d need to federate the sub list, we wouldn’t want a central source of truth for that, but that bit isn’t any different to what we have currently AFAIK