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Cake day: June 27th, 2023

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  • Oh, okay, fair. So this means that the search for new communities to browse/federate with is less troublesome, the more users populate an instance. On the flip side, if I’m considering self-hosting as one single user, I should anticipate:

    • having a fairly long phase of community discovery, unless I already know which communities I’m interested in;
    • that those communities that I do federate with will not give me any data prior to the moment I federated with them (is there a cache system to avoid this? can I go specifically retrieve older posts?)
    • an important need for storage space, as I essentially become a duplicate of the server for every community I federated with, from that point on.

    Is this correct?