I don’t know much about how the fediverse thing works. Would it be theoretically possible to have something kind of like how torrents work, with some central list of all servers acting as the “tracker list”?:
- Servers choose what they want to host and what their personal bandwidth limit is
- A user visiting a specific subforum automatically downloads from whatever servers are currently available to serve it
Then you’d never have to manually choose a server.
You don't have an identity on a torrent unless you join a server.
Similarly, you need to join a Lemmy server to have an identity there, or anywhere on Lemmy. Unlike private torrent trackers, you only need 1 Lemmy identity, and you can subscribe to other servers' communities from your original server.
Trackerless torrents are very old now, they use the DHT network to find peers. I believe it needs to be seeded when you first start a newly installed client, but that's completely transparent to the user.
Dell might as well have had the same VP at that time, but to differentiate they instead went with generally useless bundled desktop software like the Dell Stage and Dell Dock.
I wonder if a faster solution for more able-bodied people would be, instead of having a platform for sitting and a platform for standing, you could have two small platforms, one for each foot.
It’d be essentially like walking up stairs, but on the spot.
Haha, okay good point, what I proposed is pretty much an overly complex ladder isn’t it. In my defence, unlike a ladder it would allow you to stand straight up and - as the other comment mentioned - use your arms for other things.
I thought the same as the comment you are replying to, because having your hands free is quite a big deal. I practice parkour, and have zero problems with ladders from a mobility perspective, but they are not practical because you can't carry things up and down easily. Also, what if someone else comes for a visit? They better be ready to climb!
You can bring things up with a backpack. But yeah, it's less convenient than stairs, it looks worse and it is less inviting. That's why people like stairs. I'm not sure if the advertised product is that much better, though. It seems extremely slow and clunky.
- Servers choose what they want to host and what their personal bandwidth limit is
- A user visiting a specific subforum automatically downloads from whatever servers are currently available to serve it
Then you’d never have to manually choose a server.