How does federation actually work? - eviltoast

…and why is it often PAINFULLY slow to acknowledge an up/down vote or to open the reply dialog?

  • that guy@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’ve never admined a lemmy server but rate limits are probably why it feels slow.

    Federation works by each server sharing new activity with each other and rate limits help not crash the server or accidentally DOS smaller servers.