I'd agree. And LW isn't a particularly nice place anyways. It's just the biggest. And if our core features aren't important to us, we might as well send them to any arbitrary place.
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asudox@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days agoThat’s bad. LW is already dominating the Lemmyverse. I’d say just send them to one of the top 10 or 20 instances at random.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 5 days ago
JubilantJaguar@lemmy.world 5 days ago
That’s an idea too. But personally I think this worrying about the dominance of a single site is a bit misplaced, assuming that the server uses the same software and protocols. There’s advantages in having some centralization. More resources can be put into the chosen instance to improve its reliability and its moderation. These need to be absolute priorities when trying to attract new users.
A certain encyclopedia site has a de-facto monopoly of the encyclopedia space. That’s not a problem because it has the right governance and ownership structure. I think the discussion space could perhaps use a similar site.
TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
It would be the nail in the coffin for me to block .world, and I imagine more instances would end up defederating