Oh good a new way for me to get microplastics into my bloodstream.

Can we please get rid of these people who insist on remaining uninformed and then going out and spreading their ignorance by attacking others? It’s contrary to the vision of this instance to allow them to continue this behavior.

At least for now always sorting by new is very pleasant.

It is a somewhat reductive statement, I’ll give you that, but I think the core idea is true. Most people will go to the easiest solution. Lemmy’s userbase may continue to grow for some time, but it will not reach anywhere close to the level of reddit. I think it’s foolish to point to the trends from the last week and try to draw conclusions about the future, as this is clearly an extraordinary circumstance.

Do you really think the average person knows or cares about that? No, of course not. They will congregate on the most populous instance so long as it continues to support the traffic.

There was a lot of chaos around the migration, no surprises there. We can’t change the past, but we can set goals to make the future better.

You’re pointing out the exact problem that I am describing: Users will naturally flock to the largest, most stable instances, thus centralizing lemmy and removing the benefit of federation.

The reality is that reddit still exists, and is still more user-friendly (and that’s a low bar). It’s great that lemmy is getting this bump, but it won’t last unless we make it easy to switch for most people. If lemmy was good enough to be a reddit alternative already, it would be. But it’s not, and the only reason people are here is because of the protest.

I’m not familiar with Hubzilla, but it sounds like one possible solution!

Absolutely! Don’t fool yourself into thinking this will be the only time this happens. Some instance owners will never be willing or able to manage their servers as well as the big players, and that means bad actors can creep into other instance through them!

Yes, I think there are other alternatives to accomplish a similar goal. It may be that lemmy will build in its own syncing of some kind. The method doesn’t really matter much to me.

Thank you for that insightful comment. You’ve really addressed my point in its entirety, and thoroughly proven me to be a dullard. I submit to your vast intelligence.

I don’t think it’s fair to call it “Aggressive Moderation”. It’s barely possible to moderate on Lemmy right now at all, and that’s why they defederated. They simply cannot trust outside instances as much as their own, because they screen every user, and they can’t keep up with moderation. Defederating is their only option until mod tools get better.

The problem is nobody knows which smaller instances will stick around and which won’t.

Instances won’t appear and disappear weekly.

No, that will always be happening. The only thing that will settle is that the trusted instances will become known and people will stop signing up for less trusted ones.

It won’t get more users if it continues to be difficult to use.

Yes, exactly! It’s good for everyone.

That’s the issue though. Without a locked identity on an instance, people will naturally choose the option they think is least likely to disappear in a few weeks.

It’s kind of assumed they would have to pick which communities to federate with. How would you propose doing that automatically 😂

Using DIDs would involve a completely different system. Everyone would have to create a new identity anyway.