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Is Lemmy.world centralization worth fighting against? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Probably a very polarizing question.

On the one hand, having most of the users and communities on LW causes technical issues (see this post), and also gives the LW staff too much power over Lemmy as a whole.

On the other hand, with 18k MAU on LW out of 47k (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/), every community listed there has a much higher chance of visibility compared to an alternative hosted on another instance

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I am usually trying to encourage people to host communities on other instances (recently moved [email protected] to [email protected], but sometimes it feels like fighting against the current.

What do you think?