I thought the point of a fediverse was distribution making it so that no one site becomes death star sized. If one site has ALL the biggest communities… What happens if that site goes down? Shouldn’t each site that wants one have a “Tech” community, and then those get aggregated into Tech? Wouldn’t that be a better approach? Doesn’t it make more sense that no one site has so many users the server can’t handle the load (been waiting for over a week for subscriptions on lemmy.ml to complete). Before someone feels the need to explain to me what they think a federation is, I’ve taught the subject. The point I’m trying to make is… Why do we keep pretending that being the biggest is a benefit, when it is directly detrimental to the architecture that we are using? #justanotheridiot #whatdontiget #federationday
P.S. before anybody goes out of their way to be offended, my hash tags are an attempt at self deprecating humor.
well, federation has many aspects to it, including the redundant sharing of the corpus of information. the whole lemmy federation system will likely come down to a few large (possibly some commercial) instances, many small to medium general interest instamces and an unknown number to micro to small special interest instances. the real power, IMO, is that no single entity has absolute authority over entry into the corpus. if we drive that point home, I think the self organizing properties of humans and networks takes care of the rest.
the danger or embrace, extend, extinguish/enshittify still exists, but there exists a more diverse balance to the various pressures.
I don’t have better input on this than: fedsocial is a different way forward than centsocial… we shall see and respond as best we can.