Big if True. Cool if True! I think I need a, um /c/explainlikeimfive (this sublem probably hasn’t been made yet, or maybe not… it’s the goddamn wild west out here) of how all these federated stuff actually works and if what you’re describing actually would lessen the load on lemmy’s servers. I work with servers hardware shit but web server software is magical to me.
Oh god I finally was able to log in, 2 days after I thought I failed to make an account because none of the emails went through.
I wish there was some sort of way that I could send CPU power or bandwidth, tor style, to these new decentralized platforms. I totally get that they’re having growing pains, and I also get that part of the tradeoff of decentralization is “well, who pays the hosting bills then?”
I’d love to put a percentage of my bandwidth and home server (or even AWS instance) CPU resources towards running an encrypted Lemmy.world instance. I don’t want to just run my own barren, empty server like what the Federated system would let me do; I don’t feel like that would actually have any benefit to making a reddit-replacement since why would anyone use my instance? No, I specifically want to dedicate resources to helping the popular instances, be able to run.
My good sir; a SQUARE? I had given Reddit is Fun the entire 4x1 widget that auto-updated every half hour, in dark mode theme no less. That was one of the things I loved most about RiF - the clean, bare-bones and functional widget on my home screen.
But yes, since reading this thread, I put it back on my home screen and now I just read reddit in RiF while logged out. We’ll see how long that lasts…