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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • >If a server moved their domain they had to have a way to broadcast the name change to all the other instances.

    even if lemmy had a way to do this, doing it for all the users at lemmy.ml would create a large load of federated network traffic between instances, and at the level of a single instance it would cause a lot of database changes (I’ve heard that the sql schema for lemmy isn’t very optimized).

    also, as activitypub doesn’t prioritize synchronization (unlike git and matrix), there could be a lot of desynchronized state, with the name change of users reaching some instance but not others.

    it would be interesting if lemmy.ml really went the clean slate way (and I think the original intention of the devs in running that instance was just to test their code, not to have it become a “flagship” instance), it would sure showcase a valuable lesson in the fediverse…that you shouldn’t rely too much on big instances (there is no huge facebook/twitter/reddit-like thing here).