1337tux@lemmy.world to General Discussion@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoLemmy.world is now the biggest Lemmy instance!lemmy.worldimagemessage-square34fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up124arrow-down1imageLemmy.world is now the biggest Lemmy instance!lemmy.world1337tux@lemmy.world to General Discussion@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square34fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareMargot Robbie@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoWhy does lemmy.world, the largest instance, not simply eat the other instances?
minus-squareThurkeau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoThen it would just be Reddit all over again.
minus-squareiraldir@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agois there a !woosh for the replies to your comment?
minus-squareizzent@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoWe wouldn’t want beehaw or lemmygrad.
minus-squareimaqtpie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoI try to avoid eating sh.it, but you do you.
minus-squaredesignated_fridge@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoSo we end up with one instance having to serve millions of users… for free… Hmm yes that’s going to work. People on Lemmy are not going to like it but either Lemmy takes off and people will have to find ways to fund their instances or Lemmy dies. We’re in a nice period right now where kind people are able to run instances on donations or from their own pocket. But it’s not going to last.
Why does lemmy.world, the largest instance, not simply eat the other instances?
Then it would just be Reddit all over again.
is there a !woosh for the replies to your comment?
Centralization is bad
We wouldn’t want beehaw or lemmygrad.
I try to avoid eating sh.it, but you do you.
So we end up with one instance having to serve millions of users… for free… Hmm yes that’s going to work.
People on Lemmy are not going to like it but either Lemmy takes off and people will have to find ways to fund their instances or Lemmy dies.
We’re in a nice period right now where kind people are able to run instances on donations or from their own pocket. But it’s not going to last.