• drzow@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    I started on one of the smaller instances, and guess what? They didn’t make it. I spent about two days setting up my account searching for all the communities I wanted, and had a great feed. Then about a week later, they were gone. I can’t fault the admin- they were doing a lot of work and running up a server bill largely for gratis, but I lost all that setup time. So when I had to start a new account I chose to go to one of the moderately large instances because I didn’t want it to go poof overnight again.

    What I’m saying is there is safety in the medium to large instances.

    That said, I do have some problems with some of the largest instances throwing their weight around in performing global bans on users from other instances whose world views differ from theirs.

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      1 year ago

      I’m beginning to see that in order for lemmy to be truly federated, users must also become federated

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        1 year ago

        User data needs to be exportable and importable somewhere else.

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          If anything, I would say user data should be a lot more perishable than it is. Original content, answers to questions that don’t need to be answered again with a good search system, those are nice to preserve, but every word from every conversation ever?

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            1 year ago

            I was meaning things like subscriptions and preferences. Not posts and votes.

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      1 year ago

      I don’t think the point of the post was to say everybody huddle into 10-user instances. The problem currently is there are maybe 5 or so large instances roughly within the same amount of users, then lemmy.world has 10x the amount of the next largest. I’d like to see communities get more spread out into things like startrek.website but there isn’t really a way to do that for the more general communities like Technology, Gaming, etc. because any instance could really have those.