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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023
  • Catsrules@lemmy.mltoLemmy@lemmy.ml•Alternative to defederationEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Communities are not exclusive to an instance. I really don’t know where you get that false impression

    I am getting it from the community link.

    For example [email protected]

    Please let me know how i am wrong. And why Because i would love to be wrong. But as far as i know that is a community is directly tied into the lemmy.ml instance. If that server goes away I believe that community also goes away. If it doesn’t go away then what would be the new link?

    And it is extremely easy for a community to switch to another instance, something that is much harder for thousands of user accounts on an overly large instance.

    Wouldn’t all the users need to move over to the new community as well? Sure if there was time for coordination maybe. But if a community dies on my feed I might not realize for a long time unless i am specifically seeking it out.

  • Catsrules@lemmy.mltoLemmy@lemmy.ml•Alternative to defederationEnglish
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    1 year ago

    But communities are exclusive to their instance. That is what I am try to get at. If we want large communities naturally we are going to get large instances.

    Not only that but if an instance has a large community odds are good traffic from the large community will help the other communitys on that instance to grow as well. At least that is how my experience has been. Someone linked to a community on another instance, i looked at that community and also looked at the other communitys on that instance.

    At some point does it really matter where the user accounts are hosted when all of the users just go to the same community on the single large instance.