library_patron@lemmy.blahaj.zonetoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Are all these thousands of lemmy servers useless?
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1 year agoEvery server just has a cache … there is no profit for the whole network …
I wouldn’t say that caching is no profit. Yesterday there were several times when lemmy.ml was struggling or effectively down for some people, but despite complaints over there I could read lemmy.ml communities just fine through my instance. Caching meant that I was isolated from the service interruption, and the lemmy.ml server was isolated from my contribution to its load.
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