Awesome idea! I wonder if thereโs some reasonable mechanism for grouping discord messages into a single post? E.g. time bound: the previous message was greater than 5m ago so the next message is a new post and otherwise, itโs a reply to the latest post. Food for thought!
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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So every new conversation thread becomes a new post and every response becomes a comment?
Exactly! Replies are also supported ๐
Do you really think this is a good idea? Have you considered the amount of traffic will be generated and the amount of data storage this will require?
You mean storage for the bridge to maintain state or storage in terms of fediverse content?
The latter. Any instance that has at least one user following the bridge will have to process and store every message coming from the bridge discord room.
The same works with other genuine federated platforms,doesnโt it? The amount of content in the fediverse would inevitably gradually increase over time as people become more aware of it
Well, yes, but a bridge to Discord could be bringing traffic from order of magnitude more people than we currently have, and we do not have the infrastructure for it yet.
Well, technically, it is possible to flood fedi instances with a huge amount of noisy content but it is always up to an instance admins whether to keep such data and continue federating with such instances. So as long as the bridge instance is not producing tons of unrelated content, it is ok for everyone, I believe. In the end, situations could be different.
I havenโt considered any of it, because I just wanted to build it to use it on my own ๐ If someone in the world also finds it useful, then implementing some optimizations would not be a huge deal I believe. At least for personal use it is a working tool already
Short of pruning the data every once in a while (and losing all history) there is nothing that can be done to optimize it. It may work as a proof-of-concept or if you want to run on your own, but I really don't think it is a good idea to promote it.
Oh that's a very cool idea. Thanks!
Very cool!