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It isn't a waste if it provides redundancy and prevents one server from being in control of all data.
What do you mean by "normalized?"
I see your point.
I used the term "normalized" in the context of databases. One piece of data should exists only once. But, this contradicts your points of redundancy and control.
That isn't what normalized means in the context of databases.
Also databases store the same data many times over often. For redundancy and load-balancing purposes. Really, federation just takes care of replication somewhat.
Ok, I come from the signal processing world where that means something very different.
That's not what "normalized" normalisation means in the context of databases.
The only objection I have with that is redundancy is useless because if the main server who "host" the community goes down then all the other copies will die too as content can't be added anymore.
There's no mechanic for orphan communities
It's mostly intended for caching content to speed up load times afaik