I like that Lemmy can post on other instances (communities on other instances), but thinking about it, would that not present a potential issue with centralizing information about a topic on one instance?

I know it’s kind of similar to having themed Mastodon instances (and I also don’t really understand those), but it seems like a potential issue?

I know multiple instances can have the same communities, but that then seems like fracturing the conversation?

Could this just be due to my limited knowledge/use of the fediverse?

  • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party
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    1 year ago

    I don’t even touch the button right now to avoid problems until things are fixed up. You can also see what instances you’ve federated with by clicking the “Instances” link on the bottom of your instances page. Eventually the list grows pretty large all on its own and content comes in faster I find.

      • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party
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        1 year ago

        Yeah the list keeps growing! There are a lot of us with single-user instances that exist. I prefer it because even when one instance falls down from load I can still read some stuff, and I have a copy of the posts in the event one fails/shuts down so I never lose any tech knowledge I may refer back to later.

        • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOP
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          1 year ago

          That makes a lot of sense! Awesome, I think that negates a lot of the concerns I had at the start of this thread. Turns out people have already thought about these issues lol

          • darkfoe@lemmy.serverfail.party
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            1 year ago

            Mastrodon migration answered a lot of these questions thankfully too, so Lemmy gets the benefits of it. So far mainly what I’ve seen have been performance growing pains more than anything

            • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOP
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              1 year ago

              True, I’m in the Lemmy Matrix chat and lemmy.ml keeps coming up cuz it seems super slow at times.

              I am kinda surprised by how little resources Lemmy/Mastodon use up on a single user instance though. Significantly less than when I was trying to run a Matrix node.

                • jax@lemmy.cloudhub.socialOP
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                  1 year ago

                  Yeah, I haven’t had too many major issues with Lemmy or Mastodon now that you mention it. Lemmy’s install docs are… messy, but once running it’s been without issue. Hats off to the devs for that.