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  • ch1cken@kbin.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•I don't see how Lemmy will fill the gap of Reddit - it's resulting in fragmentation
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    1 year ago

    it’s resulting in fragmentation

    this is a GOOD thing, its the whole point of federation*

    • if an instance becomes corrupt due to an owners greed or someone becoming the next spez, the entirety of lemmy/kbin wouldn’t be affected as a result, only the particular communities on that instance. Which makes migrating between instances easier, and prevents the possibility of lemmy/kbin turning into reddit/twitter.
    • it distributes load, rather than dumping all hundreds of thousands of users on one server which would make everything slower
    • different instances would have different views on moderation and allowed content, which may align better with your views and usecase.
    • different instances have different privacy policies

    *if implemented correctly, lemmy/kbin should have fragmented communities but in a way that wouldn’t inconvenience the user. Currently the search tool is lacking on both, however there are centralised search tools like https://browse.feddit.de/ and https://lemmyverse.net/ which you can use to find communities.