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From a networking perspective, does the Fediverse strike anyone else as "optimistic"? (endlesstalk.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Usually, when you open a website, that site might be pulling live data from somewhere, but it's from a database on the same server. If you click a Fediverse link, and no-one else from your instance has already done so, it seems like your instance has to contact a remote site, pull the data and render it, in the same timeframe it would have to do so with local data.

To illustrate with some possibly-new-to-you examples:
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What's your experience like clicking these? Does it go through first time?
I realize they'll be people for whom these work first time no problem, and they'll wonder what I'm complaining about. I'm not really complaining about anything really, I'm just wondering if my instinctive reaction has any validity.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Neither more nor less optimistic than the pre-Facebook days of Usenet/Alternet, and E-mail.

Federation works, if you can keep it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I sent emails pre-Facebook. If anything, they were more reliable then than they are now.