This sounds stupid, no offense. Because Lemmy has people post the same articles across multiple communities, so on ibish, are there going too be dozens of duplicate articles and then huge gaps for other topics??

I think ibis would be beneficial if there “central” database would act more like a RAID of storage where petiole could commit storage space to a redundant database. Make it like a raid 0 but of you had 100 contributors, it would gain additional redundancy for stability and accessibility. It’s be like 25 “copies” or pools in raid 1 with another 25 in raid 0 to make 50 each or 100 total if that makes sense.

That would create a highly available database as if there are servers worldide or nationwide.