That whole exchange cracked me up as they were throwing out strawman arguments to hype their own project, like instances are too expensive. When we pointed out that was untrue and gave them data they ended up asking for fundraising tips.
The beautiful thing about the Fediverse is that it isn't a competition.
Some servers choose not to connect with each other.
Those servers have users and since they choose not to connect, there will be disparity.
Let's say I'm on server 'a' and you are on server 'b' and this post is on server 'c'
In this example, we can say that a and b connect with c, but a and b don't connect with each other.
We would both independently see the post on server c, and we could both leave a comment. But since a and b don't connect, we wouldn't be able to see each other's comments. The people on server c would be able to see both of our comments though.
This connection is called federation and it allows individual servers to control who they interact with.
Lemmy is just a piece of software, the people running the software on their servers control who they connect with. you could for example have multiple federations that comprise tons of servers that have no direct connection at all, resulting in two totally different networks.
@ma1w4re It's because it works similar to email. When someone posts, it sends out copies of the message to all of the followers. But some don't arrive, or some people have blocks in place, or something is not configured right. As a result, not all servers get the complete conversation.
But some people are working to fix that so that all of the servers that support threaded conversations can download the complete conversation.
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Emperor@feddit.uk · 33 pts · 1y
That whole exchange cracked me up as they were throwing out strawman arguments to hype their own project, like instances are too expensive. When we pointed out that was untrue and gave them data they ended up asking for fundraising tips.
The beautiful thing about the Fediverse is that it isn't a competition.
Blaze@feddit.org · 12 pts · 1y
Yes, the 180 they made was quite something ha ha
blackn1ght@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 1y
What's the context here?
Edit: am smooth brained idiot - context is on the post description
Blaze@feddit.org · 3 pts · 1y
Discussion on how centralized was better
blackn1ght@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 1y
Just seen the context in the post description, hadn't spotted that at first.
Blaze@feddit.org · 6 pts · 1y
I wasn't sure you had seen it, I assumed you didn't want to go to Reddit ha ha
flamingos@feddit.uk · 15 pts · 1y
"Lemmy is the least successful Reddit alternative except from all others which have been tried" -- Abraham Lincoln
ma1w4re@lemm.ee · 6 pts · 1y
Emperor@feddit.uk · 32 pts · 1y
Hexbear has been defederated by a number of instances and this will cause such a disparity.
ma1w4re@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
GBU_28@lemm.ee · 14 pts · 1y
Hexbear lmao
Takumidesh@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1y
Some servers choose not to connect with each other.
Those servers have users and since they choose not to connect, there will be disparity.
Let's say I'm on server 'a' and you are on server 'b' and this post is on server 'c'
In this example, we can say that a and b connect with c, but a and b don't connect with each other.
We would both independently see the post on server c, and we could both leave a comment. But since a and b don't connect, we wouldn't be able to see each other's comments. The people on server c would be able to see both of our comments though.
This connection is called federation and it allows individual servers to control who they interact with.
Lemmy is just a piece of software, the people running the software on their servers control who they connect with. you could for example have multiple federations that comprise tons of servers that have no direct connection at all, resulting in two totally different networks.
ma1w4re@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
scott@authorship.studio · 10 pts · 1y
@ma1w4re It's because it works similar to email. When someone posts, it sends out copies of the message to all of the followers. But some don't arrive, or some people have blocks in place, or something is not configured right. As a result, not all servers get the complete conversation.
But some people are working to fix that so that all of the servers that support threaded conversations can download the complete conversation.
ma1w4re@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 1y
Zagorath@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 1y
Different defeserated instances, problems with content being federated due to network latency. There are a bunch of possible reasons.
Blaze@feddit.org · 1 pts · 1y
Can you give an example of such post?
ma1w4re@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
Blaze@feddit.org · 4 pts · 1y
!linux@lemmy.ml
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
cohost is kill :(