I think this might be interesting:
- permit separate, low-traffic, highly rate-limited, auth-only servers. They would be strictly rate-limited and only accept connections from whitelisted partner servers, because they only handle auth.
- any partner server can authenticate a user and handle content for the server/auth-server pair, but only does so under certain conditions (determined by the partner - all the time, when ping api call > n seconds, or manually, for example)
- user@lemmy.world can't log in, so the client tries the list of partnered servers. user succeeds at lemmy.partner.net.
- user@lemmy.world@partner.net says.. '..something' and all other servers accept it as being from user@lemmy.world
- lemmy.world recovers,, and claims all of the @lemmy.world@partner.net posts. Partners then forget the extra stuff they've been hosting.
Times change, and people are slow. 'Colored people' used to be the most PC, now it's an insult. Because it could, in any old fart's brain, be either the most PC thing or an insult, you never know if the person is doing so intentionally or not, which sucks because:
..the divide just grows until people resolve it inside themselves.