#linkaggregation — Public Fediverse posts
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I swear to god I don't just sit around waiting for MOS to post something interesting before I pull one of these together.
I actually suspect now that I'm writing and building for a living we're going to get more regular about these.
Anyway, time for the "monthly" Links of Interest blogpost.
https://www.arcanalabs.ca/news/links/2026/07/31/internet-highlights.html
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@kaliwolf
Well I did not "move over" as one can't remove #NetPlan on #Ubuntu or #Kubuntu becasue of package dependencies etc...
but one can disable it more or less & let #NetworkManager take over.
What kills me about NetPlan is that it's more or less incomplete as it is missing so much, good thing it is only found on Ubuntu.
I've been getting into Bonding & 802.3ad/LACP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link_aggregation
#LinkAggregationSo what were you trying to do that NetPlan got in the way for you?
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Federated link aggregators should not own individual topics. Topics should belong to the entire fedi.
Instance owned topics is just another form of centralization.
We should not only discourage topic diaspora (e.g., a "gaming" topic on beehaw is separate from a gaming topic on another instance) but engineer solutions to *allow* and default unification of content by topic across the fedi for link aggregation (but not force this).
(De)federation then becomes how we keep topics safe for our communities: blocking posts and comments from demonstrably unsafe instances.
This is a CAP distributed system problem. My instincts say that federated link aggregation is a different enough problem from federated blogging (mastodon) that we need federated instances to share content via a consensus algorithm and not the mastodon style of federation.
I wonder about the practicalities of making this work in the truly heterogenous system of the #fediverse.
Perhaps by having the federation members/instances themselves share capability and capacity metadata with the cluster so as to load balance intelligently? The alternative could be an unintentional DDOS due to a massive instance going offline, shedding traffic to instances too small to handle the load.
#linkaggregation #cap #distributedsystems #clustering #federation #fediverse #decentralization
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🎶 She's got LAGs
Knows how to use them
