Tbh when I joined I didn’t completely understand the fediverse. I tried to join Lemmy One first because it sounded generic enough. It didn’t accept new joiners so I moved to the next generic one.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume that a lot of users are going to do the same. And even though I might swear in church now, I guess that’s the fragility you get with fediverse. Ruud can kill this instance at any point. He can grow bored, decide he wants to put his money elsewhere, instance can grow too big for him to afford, etc. People are angry Reddit have 30 days but Ruud could easily kill this instance overnight.
Reddit is a shithole of a company, but at least you can trust a company to like money and certain futures are simply not realistic because that would hurt the income.
I have no doubt Reddit will still be here in five years. I wouldn’t bet the same amount on any fediverse instance
Tbh when I joined I didn’t completely understand the fediverse. I tried to join Lemmy One first because it sounded generic enough. It didn’t accept new joiners so I moved to the next generic one
I understand that lemmy or federated services are confusing for those unfamiliar with it, so I don’t expect a user to be familiar with every single detail about it. But if you make an account on any site whatsoever, you either understand the basics of what the website is about or you don’t have any expectations about creating an account…
that’s the fragility you get with fediverse.
The fact that instances could disappear overnight is an inherent characteristic of federated and decentralized services. You can call it “fragility”, one might also look at it as strenght. Because even if an instance decides to just shut down overnight, the fediverse is not going anywhere and it also means that new instances can also appear overnight.
He can grow bored, decide he wants to put his money elsewhere, instance can grow too big for him to afford, etc. Ruud could easily kill this instance overnight.
Yeah sure, all of this is possible. But why would he do that? If he doesn’t want to do it anymore, he could just give the project to someone else. And even if the worst case scenario happens and he decided to shut the instance down for some reason, the entire point of lemmy is that even 10 instances shutting down would not kill lemmy.
I have no doubt Reddit will still be here in five years. I wouldn’t bet the same amount on any fediverse instance
Again, why does that matter? A lemmy instance and reddit as a media site is not comparable. It would be more accurate to compare a lemmy instance with an individual subreddit, except that the lemmy devs have no power to shut down an instance while the reddit devs can shut down a subreddit…
Tbh when I joined I didn’t completely understand the fediverse. I tried to join Lemmy One first because it sounded generic enough. It didn’t accept new joiners so I moved to the next generic one.
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume that a lot of users are going to do the same. And even though I might swear in church now, I guess that’s the fragility you get with fediverse. Ruud can kill this instance at any point. He can grow bored, decide he wants to put his money elsewhere, instance can grow too big for him to afford, etc. People are angry Reddit have 30 days but Ruud could easily kill this instance overnight.
Reddit is a shithole of a company, but at least you can trust a company to like money and certain futures are simply not realistic because that would hurt the income.
I have no doubt Reddit will still be here in five years. I wouldn’t bet the same amount on any fediverse instance
I understand that lemmy or federated services are confusing for those unfamiliar with it, so I don’t expect a user to be familiar with every single detail about it. But if you make an account on any site whatsoever, you either understand the basics of what the website is about or you don’t have any expectations about creating an account…
The fact that instances could disappear overnight is an inherent characteristic of federated and decentralized services. You can call it “fragility”, one might also look at it as strenght. Because even if an instance decides to just shut down overnight, the fediverse is not going anywhere and it also means that new instances can also appear overnight.
Yeah sure, all of this is possible. But why would he do that? If he doesn’t want to do it anymore, he could just give the project to someone else. And even if the worst case scenario happens and he decided to shut the instance down for some reason, the entire point of lemmy is that even 10 instances shutting down would not kill lemmy.
Again, why does that matter? A lemmy instance and reddit as a media site is not comparable. It would be more accurate to compare a lemmy instance with an individual subreddit, except that the lemmy devs have no power to shut down an instance while the reddit devs can shut down a subreddit…
If an instance disappears people can move to another instance. A slight inconvenience but worth it to escape corporate control.
If you are community creator and lose all the data that’s a big problem