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[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But there will be other instances. If this one does something stupid, then we go to another one and miss almost nothing.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a bit like saying "Yeah so we don't care what reddit does, because you can always go somewhere else"

It's the biggest instance, so it's where most of the community and content would be etc etc. Just like what happened with beehaw could happen to world as well. This is only true for a mature decentralized federated ecosystem with a lot of redundant communities so that if one goes down you can easily consume the same content from a different instence. Is that the case now? I would say no, so it's even less leader-proof.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is perfectly fine with beehaw defederating.

There is certainly the risk of a single instance dominating. But even now there are a few significant instances and losing beehaw didn't ruin anything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It's definitely good, but it isn't full proof. Nothing is.

[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

r/boneappletea

Sorry I couldn't resist

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Lol.

Guess it's my turn

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

RIght. It does depend on there being multiple major instances.