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From a networking perspective, does the Fediverse strike anyone else as "optimistic"? (endlesstalk.org)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Usually, when you open a website, that site might be pulling live data from somewhere, but it's from a database on the same server. If you click a Fediverse link, and no-one else from your instance has already done so, it seems like your instance has to contact a remote site, pull the data and render it, in the same timeframe it would have to do so with local data.

To illustrate with some possibly-new-to-you examples:
[email protected]
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What's your experience like clicking these? Does it go through first time?
I realize they'll be people for whom these work first time no problem, and they'll wonder what I'm complaining about. I'm not really complaining about anything really, I'm just wondering if my instinctive reaction has any validity.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (5 children)

What you've described is exactly how it's supposed to work. Once a user has subscribed to an external community from your instance, it should load immediately for any users afterwards.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I realize this. How well it works for User 2 isn't super-relevant for User 1's experience. And if you're from a small instance, you'll always be User 1. To me, it seems like the answer to if the page will successfully load for User 1 is 'maybe', and I guess I was questioning whether this is good enough.

[–] 6daemonbag 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

~~On a smaller instance, the first link didn't work for me :(~~

Nevermind, sync didn't recognize the rest of the url

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