cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2452085
This is, of course, assuming that the instance is not hosted on the same network that the device your account is using is accessing it from.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2452085
This is, of course, assuming that the instance is not hosted on the same network that the device your account is using is accessing it from.
Very loosely it would act as a caching or proxy service from what I understand.
My understanding is that when you subscribe to community “x” on server “y”, that your server “z” starts to download all of the content from that community so it can serve it to you locally. I don’t know how fast the activitypub protocol would fetch new posts/comments, if it’s real-time, or some kind of intermittent pull or push.