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I'm loving it except for one thing. I used Boost when I was on Reddit and loved it. The developer of Boost is working on a version for Lemmy and started up a community for everyone to congregate in. So I went to subscribe to it and I can't.
My best guess is that the instance that I signed up for (BeeHaw) defederated from Lemmy.world where the Boost community is. So my BeeHaw account is refusing to allow me to subscribe to it. If this is the case, I might need to consider moving instances.
The multiple instances is both a strength and weakness of Lemmy. It means that no billionaire can buy Lemmy and gut it. At best, a Musk/Spez/Zuckerberg wannabe could buy an instance or two. However, users could easily jump to another instance and escape their grasp. On the flip side, it means that a user on one instance could find themselves disconnected from other instances for various reasons (which the user may or may not agree with). Of course, even if this case, the user could jump to another instance if they think it's too big of a problem.
Whether this is more strength or more weakness remains to be seen, but it'll definitely be interesting.