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Is there any limit to the amount of instances to federate with? (feddit.uk)
submitted 5 days 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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[–] rimu@piefed.social 3 points 4 days ago

Generally I think duplication isn't great because it means people subscribe to all of them and cross-post in all of them. A lot of client apps don't deal with this well, yet.

I mean just have a community for cats on instance 1 and a community for dogs on instance 2.