Comment on Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 months agoIf we get to 500k or 5M users, things will naturally get way more decentralized.
What makes you think that? I abandoned my kbin account because all the content is on lemmy and I don’t feel like waiting 4 hours to get that content on kbin. People will go where the content is.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
That’s just because kbin doesn’t work properly though. One reason why things are centralized is because there are only so many servers that actually work well.
Events like this removal of the piracy community will naturally cause people to spread out over time. You could even see people try to spread out on reddit by making new subs when they chafed at the rules.
The more people we have, the more diverse we will become, and thus it will be necessary to create new servers to accommodate these different types of people. That’s my instinct, but there are many different ways it could go, I can’t predict the future.
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Content loads just as fast on small subs as on large subs. Not so for instances. I think centralization is inevitable unless federated data transfer gets faster.
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
It usually is federated quickly within Lemmy itself. I can’t speak for kbin but in my experience on SJW, I typically get all the content from remote instances in real time.
Blaze@dormi.zone 6 months ago
Here is a dashboard of synchronisation time between the most popular instances: …lem.rocks/…/federation-health-time-behind?orgId=…
As you can see, the only three instances synchronizing in more than 5 minutes are
For the 3 first instances, this is due to lag and centralization of communities on LW. Moving communities away from LW would actually help solving that issue (in parallel, Reddthat is planning to open an EU server to reduce the lag)
Cryophilia@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Are these all lemmy clients?
imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 6 months ago
Huh, that’s too bad about feddit.ch, at least they have a good alternative in feddit.de I suppose.
Good info btw 👌