In the last week I have seen solar punk go down and aussie.zone owner talk about stepping away.

I’ve not seen two places down at once that has made it to my feed in the last 3 years.

Is the self hosting aspect of lemmy a detriment to the entire environment? Admins getting burnt out or the costs becoming too high is absolutely an issue.

I know this is kind of rambling but what would happen to Lemmy if the major hosters all went down, and we all spun up our own personal services?

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    4 days ago

    Holos is designed to be data-efficient. Text activities are tiny (a few KB). Media (images, videos) are loaded on demand and cached. The relay handles delivery fan-out to your followers, so your device doesn’t need to contact each one individually.

        • tyler@programming.dev
          2·
          3 days ago

          I didn’t read the link but the text said “the person’s device doesn’t need to handle” the fan out, which means there’s a server somewhere. If it’s designed to avoid the pitfalls of self hosting then it’s centralized server tech.

          • Zeoic@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            From what I’m reading, your account and followers are attached to your devices, meaning you can easily point at a different relay and be back to normal. It’s a neat design honestly