I’m the developer of the Photon client. Try it out
The way ActivityPub federation works, once an instance is “linked” (like lemm.ee linking with lemmy.world, lemdro.id, etc), the instance will now send them an event once a post is made or something like that.
For example:
So yes, every Lemmy instance stores copies of new data from other instances once they link.
You can access Photon at https://phtn.app/ to use any instance, or selfhost.
Additionally, some instances I’d recommend that use photon are
I’m curious why your instance, sh.itjust.works, hosts Tesseract but not Photon. They have diverged so much they cannot be considered similar.
It was forked around a year or more back I believe. They are completely different projects now imo. Photon aims for the best UX and speed, while Tesseract aims to be super feature-rich.
I believe this is a form of the phenomenon Papyrus Irony
Most people who dislike cloudflare do so for their centralization of the internet, rightly so.
Me? I HATE THE STUPID “VERIFYING YOUR REQUEST” PROMPTS. THEY TAKE WAYYY TOO LONG AND DONT WORK WITH MY USER AGENT SWITCHER. STUPID WEBSITES WITH 3 MONTHLY USERS ARE TURNING ON ADVANCED “DDOS PROTECTION” JUST TO MAKE EVERY FUNCTION OF THEIR APP TAKE 18 MONTHS
LLMs are such an amazing technology, but they are used and understood completely wrong by the corporate world.
People are growing dependent on it which is a problem, but the transformer model is really cool imo.