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Not unlikely, the turnout for the Club World Cup which is happening in the US right now has been terrible.
You had PSG, the winner of the champions leage (think football super bowl) take on Athetico (one of the probably top 10 teams on earth), in LA, the second biggest city in the US, and they couldn’t even fill up the stadium 😭.
For Activitypub, a weakness is that the server has to host all the visible content to the server. So for example if lemmy got really big, and you wanted to host a tiny server but are subscribed to most lemmy comms, your server ends up hosting and fetching a copy of everything posted in these communities, which can add up to A LOT, in terms of network usage, and computational power. (For example see the debacle where an Australian sever (I think aussie.zone) struggled with this and was weeks behind fetching content from lemmy.world since so much content comes from that instance).
This probably would scale pretty terribly if it got anywhere near the size of reddit.
ATProto gives a scalable solution to this (but comes with tradeoffs). Where you can create your own “instance” PDS (Personal Data Server), without hosting all the posts federated to you, since this is hosted by a “relay” which does most of the heavy lifting computationally. So it ends up with a solution that looks more centralised (since there is less incentive to host relays, so fewer relays), but also much more friendly to people who wanna host their own “PDS” and therefore control their data. This is also very helpful with scalability and solves some of the weird federation quirks activitypub has (ie. you can’t see a lemmy community or mastodon account until someone on your instance subscribes or follows it).
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Three-panel meme showing a man in military fatigues speaking in a forest setting. In the first panel, he says “The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it…” In the second panel, he continues “…and that is the real trick of the Imperial thought machine.” In the third panel, he concludes “It’s easier to hide behind 40 atrocities than it is behind a single incident.”
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REFUGEES FROM "COMMUNIST" COUNTRIES SUPPORTING FASCIST POLITICIANS IN THE WEST IN ORDER TO "STOP COMMUNISM" looking out of a car window at
WESTERNERS SUPPORTING THE "COMMUNIST" COUNTRIES IN ORDER TO "STOP WESTERN IMPERIALISM' Who are looking back at the other car
Under you have a skeleton submerged deep into water called “Anarchists”
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Dutch parliament recognizes Soviet 1944 deportation of Crimean Tatars as genocide
(kyivindependent.com)
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I really want the pandemic—the hundreds of millions with Long Covid, the tens of millions dead—to mean something. Like cleaner indoor air, normalised masking, funding for post-viral illnesses. Instead, we got mask bans, disability cuts and an anti-vaxxer in the White House
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I would rather you help me with a small task than waste 20 minutes praying for me to have been born with a different genome
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Iranian opposition supporters grapple with US and Israeli regime change plans
(www.theguardian.com)
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