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Is there any limit to the amount of instances to federate with? (feddit.uk)
submitted 15 hours ago by alonsohmtz@feddit.uk to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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Looking at the Linked Instances, most instances have at most a few hundred instances linked. What happens when there are thousands, or possibly even millions? Could too many instances require significantly more powerful hardware, or even be impossible altogether?

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[–] HumanDent@lemmy.zip 3 points 14 hours ago

how could you personally ever expect to consume that volume?

Joke's on you, those thousands of communities are all dead with just a couple of posts from two+ years ago.