• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    3 days ago

    Yes, apparently their protocol sends everything to every node, so it would overwhelm anything but a very powerful and expensive server. The Fediverse’s ActivityPub protocol is more efficient and only sends traffic where it is needed.

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      2 days ago

      This was true for a while but they’re updating the sync protocol to support sharding etc. people are running full network relays off a raspberry pi