Title suffices I think. Have other people noticed this? I’ve tried poking around for other threads a bit.

What could be causing this?

  • setsubyou@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t think it’s a protocol issue. It’s not that different from how e-mail lists work. Except most users are on a very small number of big instances (which makes it easier).

    In Usenet it’s even worse as messages have to go through multiple hops and aren’t filtered by what groups users subscribe too, and that worked decades ago on hardware less powerful than a cheap cloud instance is today.

    Lemmy is still tiny in comparison so I think it must be a software issue.

    • marsara9@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Ya I keep forgetting it’s similar to email. But at the same time for every reply, is it not similar to doing a reply-all, with each federated instance being in the recipients list? And don’t forget what happens when everyone starts doing a reply-all when on an email with a large distribution list… The email server ends up taking hours or even days to processes that queue. Hopefully I’m over thinking it, but I’ll learn more over the next few weeks as I study ActivityPub more and more.