Why does lemmy.world, the largest instance, not simply eat the other instances?
Then it would just be Reddit all over again.
Centralization is bad
is there a !woosh for the replies to your comment?
I try to avoid eating sh.it, but you do you.
So we end up with one instance having to serve millions of users… for free… Hmm yes that’s going to work.
People on Lemmy are not going to like it but either Lemmy takes off and people will have to find ways to fund their instances or Lemmy dies.
We’re in a nice period right now where kind people are able to run instances on donations or from their own pocket. But it’s not going to last.
Now that’s only a little sus
robots need community too! /s
I am happy to contribute! I think it’s time for me to move on from Reddit. I am excited to help this platform grow and become something great - I just need to become less of a lurker.
Former lurkers unite!
Was a reddit lurker for years and became a massive contributor.
I am looking forward to continuing thag momentum. Heh.
99.5% uptime is very impressive for a community that is experiencing such explosive growth.
I did read that @Ruud said in a post that Lemme.world can handle 1 million users as of right now.
He hopes that other instances get more traction so the crowds are distributed.
Damn it, I specifically joined this one because it was less popular.
Oh well lol
the little engine that could
I got bombarded by ads for this recently: is that the Jack in the Box clown? Or just a generic one?
It’s a generic clown. The Little Engine That Could is a classic children’s novel.
Unfortunately I don’t have much faith in this social network until the bot issue is addressed. There is a huge contingent of spambots just waiting for their moments here.
Spam bots or spam servers? Everyone is saying regulate signups for servers but anyone can spin up a Lemmy server and spam with thousands of accounts until they are defedarated. Then 5 minutes later do it again with a new server. It’s not hard to setup a Lemmy server.
came from reddit. lemmy principles seem to align with me open for everyone and communities run their own instance if required
I’ve seen more bigger communities on here than the ml instance
That’s because I brought snacks, who doesn’t like the most finger friendly food?
That’s cool the content has been great so far too!
But… is that even a good thing? I mean, the point of the fediverse is to distribute the load across instances.
The point is that everyone CAN start an instance and become bigger. It’s the users that decide.
I like this way of putting it. It’s like that post that was around a few days ago discussing lemmy as being “CEO-proof”.
It’s not really I guess, but if an instance got big and started being unfriendly/unreasonable to users they could just go to another instance and still be part of the federation.
If it gets too much they can just stop letting people join, can’t they? I think for the beginning a little bit of centralizing will make stuff easier. For the long run it might be less desirable.
Now can we defederate the .ml tankies?
“Yay we’re winning the race!” shoots the engine
