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They are asking people not to join because they can't handle the influx. Not a good sign. It also looks like I can only post and vote on my own instance, so ho
by Buttons840 3y ago
They are asking people not to join because they can't handle the influx. Not a good sign.
It also looks like I can only post and vote on my own instance, so hosting my own Lemmy is worthless, unlike email where I can host my own without any fundamental downsides (although there are some cultural downsides, for lack of a better term).
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- nulld3v 3y agoYou can most definitely post/vote on other instances.
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- p-e-w 3y agoThe largest Lemmy instance, according to their list, has 1500 monthly active users, and they can't handle more? How is that thing ever supposed to scale?
- satvikpendem 3y agoCongratulations, you have discovered why Reddit (and any B2C social network in general) took venture capital as it did and why it's struggling to contain its expenses on scaling to that many users.
- ratg13 3y agoThe whole point of decentralization is to build many redundant points of equal size. If you just put all the effort into one single node, you’ve essentially destroyed the idea of decentralization.
- GabeIsko 3y agoIt is kind of a bummer that the votes themselves aren't federated yet, even if the content is. The whole point of federation is that you should self host your own so that you have ownership over the computing that powers your social media experience, which is the only way are going to move forward with it really. Otherwise, you are just depending on the good will of someone else, usually a corporation that needs to make money at somepoint. It's not like investment or venture capital is actually delivering any value for the users of these services. Ideally, there will be more of a P2P structure for social media if everything moves forward. It doesn't solve for the problem where large companies can solve for doing the really large aggregation and drive engagement algorithmically. But even if 3-4 aggregators that are independent from each other emerge plus there being a relatively low barrier of entry to create your own, I think it could be sustainable and a major win. Privately funded social spaces are dying a quick death in the age of high interest rates.
- amadeuspagel 3y ago> It is kind of a bummer that the votes themselves aren't federated yet, even if the content is. Federating votes wouldn't be compatible with anonymous voting.
- Buttons840 3y agoIf I see a post with 10 upvotes (let's ignore downvotes for now), did 10 people from my instance upvote, or did 10 people from the instance where the content was originally posted upvote?
- leobg 3y agoIs it so hard to set up a few $50/m Hetzner servers to offer refuge to the folks leaving Reddit? Rather than posting silly pleas to not put too much load on the server. I mean, that’s the best thing to happen to this project, is it not? Gotta make hay when the sun is shining.