I find that hardly surprising. There aren’t many lemmy instances out there yet, it is relatively hard to discover groups hosted elsewhere, and the whole UX lends itself towards a “many groups on one server, why venture elsewhere?” approach. Naturally users cluster to the(ir) “main” instance. From a resilience/federation perspective that is a Bad ThingTM, just like it is with Mastodon (that monopolized the microblogging federation space so much, it has become synonymous with it in many peoples minds).
Here’s to hoping other lemmy-compatible1 servers will be written.
1 Let’s not get into a discussion of how all ActivityPub implementations are compatible, shall we?
I find that hardly surprising. There aren’t many lemmy instances out there yet, it is relatively hard to discover groups hosted elsewhere, and the whole UX lends itself towards a “many groups on one server, why venture elsewhere?” approach. Naturally users cluster to the(ir) “main” instance. From a resilience/federation perspective that is a Bad ThingTM, just like it is with Mastodon (that monopolized the microblogging federation space so much, it has become synonymous with it in many peoples minds).
Here’s to hoping other lemmy-compatible1 servers will be written.
1 Let’s not get into a discussion of how all ActivityPub implementations are compatible, shall we?
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Nice :)
Great points. I have created two brainstorm topics that relate to this, !fediversefutures@lemmy.ml:
Regarding your footnote, I wholly agree, and you may find my post on - what I call - the Fediverse Challenge interesting as well.