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.
The main point, or why it’s fine is because it’s new. Losing it is not really that important right now, because being honest. We’re a grain of sand in comparison. So It’s not much that we lose. But extrapolate and now you have 50 million users on .world and suddenly they shut the server down. Not defederation, it shuts down. Sure you can say “oh well… I guess time to start over” I would wager most people will be like “Nah, fuck this… I’ll go somewhere else that might not implode”
right now we’re on the reddit hate train and hyped the fuck up. Later on those servers will be getting bigger and more expensive. Some might cover it with donations, some might not.
If we have ~5 major instances, then yes a loss of 10 million is not good, but it certainly doesn’t kill lemmy. There’s no need to start over, there’s no need to change anything.
If the fediverse is healthy, it can handle that kind of loss without any issue. If we get all funneled into 1 or 2 instances, then yeah, we’re gonna have problems.
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.
The main point, or why it’s fine is because it’s new. Losing it is not really that important right now, because being honest. We’re a grain of sand in comparison. So It’s not much that we lose. But extrapolate and now you have 50 million users on .world and suddenly they shut the server down. Not defederation, it shuts down. Sure you can say “oh well… I guess time to start over” I would wager most people will be like “Nah, fuck this… I’ll go somewhere else that might not implode” right now we’re on the reddit hate train and hyped the fuck up. Later on those servers will be getting bigger and more expensive. Some might cover it with donations, some might not.
If we have ~5 major instances, then yes a loss of 10 million is not good, but it certainly doesn’t kill lemmy. There’s no need to start over, there’s no need to change anything.
If the fediverse is healthy, it can handle that kind of loss without any issue. If we get all funneled into 1 or 2 instances, then yeah, we’re gonna have problems.