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.
DaughterOfMars
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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 haven't had any interest in FF games since the original 7, but I played the demo after I saw it on the store just for fun. I think I'm gonna buy this one.
Other than some gripes and annoyances, it's fucking fun. Closer to dark souls combat than the weird ATB stuff they've had for a while.
The writing is surprisingly okay, albeit with some cringe lines here and there and and overall trope-ey lore. Some of the exposition actually didn't feel totally out of place!
My biggest concern is about grind, as is the case with much of the series, but we'll see I guess.
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.
Your work is the bee's knees!
In general the owners of beehaw are taking this whole lemmy thing much more seriously, and I appreciate it.
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.
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.