[Technical] Why not Fanout via static files or CDNs in the Fediverse?
tofu @ tofu @lemmy.nocturnal.garden Posts 6Comments 150Joined 4 mo. ago
tofu @ tofu @lemmy.nocturnal.garden
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I'm really not sure about that being inexpensive. The files will grow and the list of people to follow usually grows as well. This just doesn't scale well.
I follow 700 people on Mastodon. That's 700 requests every interval. With 100-10000 posts or possibly millions of interactions in each file.
Of course you can do stuff like pagination or something like that. But some people follow 10000 accounts and want to have their timeline updated in short in intervals.
Pulling like this is usually used when the author can't sent you something directly and it works in RSS Feeds. But most people don't follow hundreds of RSS feeds. Which reminds me that every mastodon profile offers an RSS feed - you can already do what you described with an RSS reader.