Nice! I have a feeling that most of the fediverse dont use a whole lot of caching. I dont really enjoy some of the things cloudflare does, but it does do a good job with caching.

Is Memcache still a thing? I remember using that for a LOT of older apps back in the day.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

IMO what we need is a different sort of thing more like load-balancing than caching, where users from outside the Fediverse (i.e. who aren't logged in to the server whose URL they're trying to load and thus probably don't actually have a strong preference about which instance they actually view it from) get redirected to other instances to help spread out the load.

There's no particular reason why the entirety of Hacker News and Reddit needs to be piling in to view this thing that was posted to !linux@lemmy.ml just because a feddit.org user happened to have been the one who wrote it (and possibly shared it).

Posts and comments already have a chain icon for the URL of the view of them on the user's current server and a fediverse graph icon for the URL of them on the poster's home server, but maybe there needs to be a third icon for the lemmyverse link url or something like that.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 1 points 1 week ago

Very interesting idea, thanks.

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