• designated_fridge@lemmy.world
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      So we end up with one instance having to serve millions of users… for free… Hmm yes that’s going to work.

      People on Lemmy are not going to like it but either Lemmy takes off and people will have to find ways to fund their instances or Lemmy dies.

      We’re in a nice period right now where kind people are able to run instances on donations or from their own pocket. But it’s not going to last.

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        I’m sure how the ecosystem of Lemmy will play out is that there are a handful, maybe 6 or 7, main instances that require funding and are simply massive with teams committed to them. Then you have the niche medium sized instances that are known for a particular community or two, such as an instance that is well known for its great vegetarian community or whatever. Then you’ll have tiny instances that are used by irl friend groups, or for simply tech savvy people that want a home base instance that they can control.

        We’re already sort of set up like this, but less organized and smaller overall. Many instances have duplicates of the same communities right now which I think will slowly fade away as future updates make it easier to visit/search other instances.

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          I’m expecting the location specific instances to split off though (shout out to my squad fams at aussie.zone) so that they don’t get lost in the mix of the major general communities.

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            Oh, true. That kind of fits into the idea of mid-sized niche communities, but definitely locations will become a big thing.

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    I did read that @Ruud said in a post that Lemme.world can handle 1 million users as of right now.

    He hopes that other instances get more traction so the crowds are distributed.

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    I am happy to contribute! I think it’s time for me to move on from Reddit. I am excited to help this platform grow and become something great - I just need to become less of a lurker.

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    But… is that even a good thing? I mean, the point of the fediverse is to distribute the load across instances.

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      The upside is join-lemmy.org always puts the smaller but growing instances at the top to somewhat distribute the load for new users. Also there are new general purpose instances popping up, I quite like it and as long as there is no drama you can access most of the Fediverse from almost any instance.

    • Antik 👾@lemmy.world
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      The point is that everyone CAN start an instance and become bigger. It’s the users that decide.

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        I like this way of putting it. It’s like that post that was around a few days ago discussing lemmy as being “CEO-proof”.

        It’s not really I guess, but if an instance got big and started being unfriendly/unreasonable to users they could just go to another instance and still be part of the federation.

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      If it gets too much they can just stop letting people join, can’t they? I think for the beginning a little bit of centralizing will make stuff easier. For the long run it might be less desirable.

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    Unfortunately I don’t have much faith in this social network until the bot issue is addressed. There is a huge contingent of spambots just waiting for their moments here.

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      Spam bots or spam servers? Everyone is saying regulate signups for servers but anyone can spin up a Lemmy server and spam with thousands of accounts until they are defedarated. Then 5 minutes later do it again with a new server. It’s not hard to setup a Lemmy server.

  • yoloswag90@lemmy.world
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    came from reddit. lemmy principles seem to align with me open for everyone and communities run their own instance if required