Aren’t you on a big instance?
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dipshit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
(bigger instances are not the point of decentralization)
Aman9das@lemmus.org 9 months ago
dipshit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Only the biggest. as I understand all other instances shut down when the biggest instance wins.
I have accounts on other instances and am considering starting my own. that’s my point - lemmy doesn’t need big instances because federation makes all instances part of the same but decentralized.
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 9 months ago
True but it does seem like a good sign of a healthy ecosystem.
dipshit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So long as we don’t view it as a race to the top. having one instance that’s more popular than the others just means added pressure for that instance to perform. and if it doesn’t perform? lemmy loses users who may not want to migrate to another instance
TangledHyphae@lemmy.world 9 months ago
No I was using reddit since 2009 or so. This is the closest alternative I can find to escape the cesspool that it has become.
dipshit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
yeah, centralized services can get stupidly large and unwieldy.
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Does it say anything anywhere about big instances? I’m confused.
dipshit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
this thread is about instances fighting to be #1 isn’t it?
Sanyanov@lemmy.world 9 months ago
In case you’re not joking, this thread is about Fediverse software fighting to be #1. First is Mastodon (all known instances of it), second is Lemmy (all known instances of it), etc. etc.
dipshit@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The software isn’t doing the fight. I doubt the developers of the software are doing the fight. The fight seems weird and antithetical to the fediverse to begin with. It’s not a fight, it’s a party! fediverse.party