There are many lemmy instances in the world, but currently most people are using lemmy.world. This is why everything has gotten so slow.

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    1 year ago

    Wouldn’t this put me at risk of that smaller instance defederizing and removing everything I contribute while logged in to that instance?

    • BlackCat@lemmy.myserv.one
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      1 year ago

      This is whats kind of not clear to me. While its clear what the benefit is for lemmy.world or some instance you move from, its less clear what the benefit for the individual moving is such as myself. I have more risk, its a hassle, the smaller server might itself get overloaded or break. Sometimes it feels ‘safer in numbers’. Unsure. Feels like I would be best off if everyone else moved and took on the risk while I stayed and reaped the benefits of them reducing the load rather than me doing it.

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    1 year ago

    Something like this needs to be incorporated by devs at the UX onboarding level if you want success.

    During mass migration times, you need to really hold new users hands to curate a path towards community ideals. Needs to be as easy as clicking boxes to attempt to create accounts on multiple instances and then app defaults to the local option to start, or something similar.

    You’ll only get a few crumbs here and there from dedicated people if it’s that manual of a process.

  • _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    So can I just start running my only instance on my home server and just let only a few friends use it, then federate with the rest?

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    1 year ago

    I think the concerns about smaller instances are valid (as I post from lemmus.org). Some additional data points to consider when evaluating an instance would be whether they’re running a recent version and the uptime of the instance.

    It’d probably be a good idea to have a page that promotes these smaller instances that ‘score’ well to help distribute some of the load.

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      1 year ago

      That’s exactly what preventing me from switching to a more obscure instance. I don’t want to redo my subs all over again

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    1 year ago

    I would add that the risk of joining a small server is that the owner can suddenly delete them at any time and you would have to start all over again elsewhere. Best thing to do is to make an account on the large instances only.

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        1 year ago

        It’s run through the Open Collective, and is also run by Ruud who runs one of the larger Mastodon instances as well as some other stuff on the Fediverse I believe. They’re a fairly trusted actor in the space and I think pretty transparent with everything they do which is probably another reason many people flocked there.

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      1 year ago

      There is a very large range between tiny instance that can disappear overnight and “large instance”. The large instances are actually more likely to disappear as their hosting costs are beyond what a small group of admins can pay out of their own pocket easily, so they vitally depend on donations and that can break down easily for many reasons.

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        1 year ago

        I disagree. The large Mastodon instances have managed to survive for a while on donations. I haven’t seen a large Mastodon instance go kaput (though you can correct me if I’m wrong).

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          1 year ago

          There were certainly some that had to close registrations as their donation base was insufficient for the number of users trying to sign up. And others were sold to very questionable companies as they couldn’t finance themselves otherwise.

          But that wasn’t my argument. We are talking about things that can go wrong with instances. Just because you didn’t see any large instances go down in this “nice weather” period, doesn’t mean they are resilient to serious shocks.

          A small to medium sized instance that is basically run as a hobby by a few admins and is optimized for being cheap enough to not need donations is the much more sustainable and resilient instance.

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            1 year ago

            Yeah but then you run into the risk of federation/defederation politics. We’ve already have had a major instance defederate.

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              That is why you would want to choose an instance that aligns with your values, so that if they defederate, it is to your benefit.