• machinin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    31·
    1 month ago

    We need more instances, but we need to be a lot smarter about the structure. I think we will only be able to grow larger if we make a more intentional separation between topic-based instances and “people-home” instances, so that we can have a better spread of the load.

    I don’t know if it would help with load-balancing, but I feel hash tags would be better than communities.

    • rglullisAEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      This goes against the design of ActivityPub, which requires people to follow actors. A hashtag does not have a single name, so people would have to follow all servers and/or the servers would have to relay activities that are not originating from their actors. It is possible, clunky to implement.

    • ericjmorey@discuss.onlineEnglish
      6·
      1 month ago

      Isn’t that just Mastodon and similar services? I prefer the community url scheme more that the hashtag scheme.

      • obbeel@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
        2·
        1 month ago

        I agree that the hashtag scheme is bad. It attracts people that want to self-promote or bots.