Honestly I think the idea of hundreds of tiny instances of Mastodon or Lemmy is not the way the fediverse should work. It probably won’t work that way because it doesn’t scale well. However, having a half-dozen or so large instances would give you almost the entire benefit without as many of the issues. Would Reddit be having a meltdown right now if there was even just one other instance of Reddit everyone could move to?
I think federation and centralization is the key to success.
Well, good news then. The vast majority of Mastodon and Lemmy users are on just a few big instances.
Those who are not, have their reasons. That’s ok, the big instances will still work as you expect. There is no reason to “centralize” people who intentionally want to remain on the periphery
Yeah, that’s largely what happened with email too. It’s a decentralised network but most people just pick a big provider and stick with that (which is absolutely fine)
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Honestly I think the idea of hundreds of tiny instances of Mastodon or Lemmy is not the way the fediverse should work. It probably won’t work that way because it doesn’t scale well. However, having a half-dozen or so large instances would give you almost the entire benefit without as many of the issues. Would Reddit be having a meltdown right now if there was even just one other instance of Reddit everyone could move to?
I think federation and centralization is the key to success.
Well, good news then. The vast majority of Mastodon and Lemmy users are on just a few big instances.
Those who are not, have their reasons. That’s ok, the big instances will still work as you expect. There is no reason to “centralize” people who intentionally want to remain on the periphery
Yeah, that’s largely what happened with email too. It’s a decentralised network but most people just pick a big provider and stick with that (which is absolutely fine)