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[–] helmet91@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

But... is that even a good thing? I mean, the point of the fediverse is to distribute the load across instances.

[–] antik@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The point is that everyone CAN start an instance and become bigger. It's the users that decide.

[–] Saturn@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I like this way of putting it. It’s like that post that was around a few days ago discussing lemmy as being “CEO-proof”.

It’s 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.

[–] hydra@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] menemen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.