Of course it’s not about centralisation per se, but the problems that a centralised platform does not have to deal with.
Comment on Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users
requiem@lemmy.world 10 months agoI don’t think it’s about a craving for centralisation but for newcomers and people still learning the core ideas about decentralisation it’s about a promise of more active engagement and more varied content.
FuzzChef@feddit.de 10 months ago
scytale@lemm.ee 10 months ago
And FOMO. New users gravitate towards the large instances because they think they will miss content, not knowing they can easily access said content on any instance as long as it hasn’t defederated from them.
qaz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m barely seeing any content at all, I often see a post click on the community and it shows either 2 other posts and nothing else or nothing at all. It constantly seems like the majority of posts just disappear into the void.