The counterargument here is that there maybe so many posts etc. that users here can not effectively block them. I know that I am on Lemmy because I don’t want anything remotely like Twitter, ever. I don’t care to follow individuals, but communities.
Granted, I’m not entirely sure how the federation aspect works. If I understand it correctly, things like images etc. will only be stored if someone from this instance actively clicks on the post. However, does the sheer amount of posts being served affect the server itself? I don’t know enough to effectively comment here, I guess.
I think the performance impacts on other instances will depend on how Meta engineers integrate Federation. I’m sure it will involve some “Federation Gateway” service on their infra, whose job it is to cache content from and make requests to the Fediverse at large.
The counterargument here is that there maybe so many posts etc. that users here can not effectively block them. I know that I am on Lemmy because I don’t want anything remotely like Twitter, ever. I don’t care to follow individuals, but communities.
Granted, I’m not entirely sure how the federation aspect works. If I understand it correctly, things like images etc. will only be stored if someone from this instance actively clicks on the post. However, does the sheer amount of posts being served affect the server itself? I don’t know enough to effectively comment here, I guess.
I think the performance impacts on other instances will depend on how Meta engineers integrate Federation. I’m sure it will involve some “Federation Gateway” service on their infra, whose job it is to cache content from and make requests to the Fediverse at large.