• FundMECFSResearch
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    14 days ago

    So someone like me that has a couple hundred subscriptions is a far bigger server load that someone who browses via all?

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      14 days ago

      Yeah, sort of. The total number of subscriptions (by all users) determines the load caused by federation. If you subscribe to 200 communities then I subscribe to the same 200 the federation load will not increase.

      So once an instance has more than a dozen users pretty much every community that exists will be subscribed to and adding more users will not increase federation load (but it would increase load caused by the UI)