I see—you’re talking about instances with no users? Yes, those don’t help much. Maybe edit the typo “a significant piece of auditory” in the original post, since I guessed that you were talking about instances with users but no communities.
Demimasc (he/him/his or they/them/theirs)
Universal expert: somehow, no matter what I post, my username always checks out :)
Sometimes I have to be away from the internet for days or weeks at a time. If I’m not responding, that’s probably why.
I see—you’re talking about instances with no users? Yes, those don’t help much. Maybe edit the typo “a significant piece of auditory” in the original post, since I guessed that you were talking about instances with users but no communities.
Every 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.
I wish, but lemmy.blahaj.zone is not mine, just one of the larger medium-sized instances that have been around for a while. But some people do do as you describe.