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  • Kazaii@sh.itjust.workstosh.itjust.works Main Community@sh.itjust.works•Lemmy and the Fediverse give me faith in humanityEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I’d say they’re comparable and have similar problems experienced in different ways.

    On mastodon, a big name becomes the stress on the server. It’s like people showing up to a small coffee shop to hear a politician speak about something. If the politician becomes more renowned / popular, eventually they have rallies. Eventually those rallies are broadcasted and licestreamed… All that means more infra and more $

    Lemmy has the problem of communities. Communities sometimes gather in small places like a person’s house or a bar. If that community grows large, maybe they need to have a conference / convention (like an anime or tech community). That means the instance that hosts that community has to has a conference sized instance, to host all the lads/lasses/etc of the fediverse.

    More eyeballs / more discussion = more demand. Simple as that.

    edit: I will add that there is one difference. You might have your own little small fragmented community, here on sh.itjust … like for skateboards. More intimate discussion, etc. This would potentially prevent c/skateboards on an instance from growing too large…

    But there is only one @gargron that most people will follow.