Post #1038298

2024-08-31 23:18 UTC

The creator of Newgrounds has considered adding ActivityPub support to join the fediverse but is worried it would make their hosting fees untenable by “serving files to millions of people on third party apps“. Can anyone with more knowledge on how this works help them? https://www.newgrounds.com/bbs/topic/1537550/3#bbspost27933331_post_text Having Newgrounds on the Fediverse would be incredible. Newgrounds has a huge art community, many features not available on any platform and has been around the longest (1999) CC @dansup @Gargron @ruud

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@Gargron@mastodon.social 2024-08-31 23:26

@nix@merveilles.town That seems like a misunderstanding of the infrastructure. Each fediverse server (at least ones powered by Mastodon) caches a copy of the media files to serve to their own users. The increase on bandwidth for the origin server is minimal, comparatively, since there's at most 20k servers, instead of millions of people.

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@Blort@social.tchncs.de 2024-09-01 09:01

@nix@merveilles.town @dansup@mastodon.social @Gargron@mastodon.social @ruud@mastodon.world WE NEED FOAMY THE SQUIRREL ON THE FEDIVERSE!!!!

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@cy@fedicy.us.to 2024-09-01 12:59

Unfortunately, technically, that sort of is how the Fediverse works. I'd love for there to be federation of attachments (aka art) but there is no standard for that. BUT ← Much Fediverse server software allows for some form of media caching. If 10000 people on mastodon.social go to look at an image, it will be downloaded once, then served from mastodon.social from there. So at least by convention (usually?) you only have to serve files to thousands of instances, who cache it from there. Personally I'd love some sort of swarming caching solution that single user instances could participate in collectively.

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