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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€“] chrisbit@leminal.space 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lemmy can certainly be used like an old school forum with federation disabled in the settings. The developers even made a phpBB-like front-end for it: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB

[โ€“] maegul@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Yea ... but I like the reddit-like interface. It's richer with more options than an old school forum.

Also ... they're running an instance of this somewhere too.