Why does lemmy.world, the largest instance, not simply eat the other instances?
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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is there a !woosh for the replies to your comment?
Then it would just be Reddit all over again.
Centralization is bad
So we end up with one instance having to serve millions of users... for free... Hmm yes that's going to work.
People on Lemmy are not going to like it but either Lemmy takes off and people will have to find ways to fund their instances or Lemmy dies.
We're in a nice period right now where kind people are able to run instances on donations or from their own pocket. But it's not going to last.
I try to avoid eating sh.it, but you do you.
I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast!
You eat spez for breakfast?
Now that's only a little sus
robots need community too! /s
But... is that even a good thing? I mean, the point of the fediverse is to distribute the load across instances.
The upside is join-lemmy.org always puts the smaller but growing instances at the top to somewhat distribute the load for new users. Also there are new general purpose instances popping up, I quite like it and as long as there is no drama you can access most of the Fediverse from almost any instance.
The point is that everyone CAN start an instance and become bigger. It's the users that decide.
I like this way of putting it. Itβs like that post that was around a few days ago discussing lemmy as being βCEO-proofβ.
Itβs not really I guess, but if an instance got big and started being unfriendly/unreasonable to users they could just go to another instance and still be part of the federation.
If it gets too much they can just stop letting people join, can't they? I think for the beginning a little bit of centralizing will make stuff easier. For the long run it might be less desirable.
the little engine that could
I got bombarded by ads for this recently: is that the Jack in the Box clown? Or just a generic one?
It's a generic clown. The Little Engine That Could is a classic children's novel.
came from reddit. lemmy principles seem to align with me open for everyone and communities run their own instance if required
99.5% uptime is very impressive for a community that is experiencing such explosive growth.
Awesome!
I am happy to contribute! I think it's time for me to move on from Reddit. I am excited to help this platform grow and become something great - I just need to become less of a lurker.
Former lurkers unite!
Was a reddit lurker for years and became a massive contributor.
I am looking forward to continuing thag momentum. Heh.
I did read that @Ruud said in a post that Lemme.world can handle 1 million users as of right now.
He hopes that other instances get more traction so the crowds are distributed.
obligatory it's inevitable
it's impossible for me to see this image without picturing that dog's face in the dust storm
edit: for the uninformed
Woah how the hell did you do that arrow
Just put an image in a spoiler! You can hit the little
icon under my post to check out the source and see exactly how I did it.
Woah
But now how did you put the paper icon in your previous message
Funny you ask, it's actually really cool how it just worked.
I used ShareX to take a screenshot of it, which was then saved to my clipboard (but you can use any screenshotting tool that saves to your clipboard, such as the built in Windows snip tool. I just love ShareX). Then I CTRL+ V'd it in the middle of the comment I was making and it just worked - auto uploaded with the proper syntax and everything. I was kind of shocked tbh.
My man's living in 3023. Ginjutsu with the S tier techniques
Unfortunately I don't have much faith in this social network until the bot issue is addressed. There is a huge contingent of spambots just waiting for their moments here.
Spam bots or spam servers? Everyone is saying regulate signups for servers but anyone can spin up a Lemmy server and spam with thousands of accounts until they are defedarated. Then 5 minutes later do it again with a new server. Itβs not hard to setup a Lemmy server.
Now can we defederate the .ml tankies?
Damn it, I specifically joined this one because it was less popular.
Oh well lol
Me too! Damn kids, get off our lawn!
The future is here, old man.