I’m building a fanfiction archive and I was wondering whether I should add federation just to the forum or to the whole site and if I add it to the whole site whether or not ActivityPub would be a good fit, like is it possible using ActivityPub to share the load of hosting the files across different instances or is that something unrelated and it’s only useful for typical social interactions?
Federation seems like another drama locus as different instance admins disagree about stuff. Have you been involved in fanfic hosting before? The difficulties are about the humans, not the software.