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How resource intensive is the federation part of running a lemmy server? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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I ask generally out of curiosity. I was just thinking that as big social media fractures, old school isolated forums might become "cool again", and that one of the achievements of lemmy might be as a nice platform for simply running a forum for whatever community you want all without needing to worry about federation.

If it turns out that work of federating data is a substantial part of the resource overhead, and that an isolated server would actually be quite efficient, that'd be quite a nice feather in the lemmy cap I'd say. Hexbear seems to have been using lemmy this way for a while and it seems to have been successful too.

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[โ€“] maegul@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure. I'm talking about any group of people that want a forum on the internet without bothering about being on the fediverse. Would just spinning up an unfederated lemmy server be a good option for this from a resources/efficiency standpoint?

[โ€“] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 3 points 1 year ago

Yes it would. Another one written in elixir and no federation stuff in is https://github.com/ckruse/cforum_ex