On the one hand, having most of the users and communities on LW causes technical issues (see this post), and also gives the LW staff too much power over Lemmy as a whole.

On the other hand, with 18k MAU on LW out of 47k (https://fedidb.org/software/lemmy/), every community listed there has a much higher chance of visibility compared to an alternative hosted on another instance

History of LW controversial decisions

when they promoted Discord as an official communication channel (https://lemmy.world/post/3478399 - since then they created a Matrix chat)
when they blocked the piracy communities (https://lemmy.world/post/13320356 )
when they announced they might move from Lemmy to Sublinks (some comments from LW admins were quite controversial: https://lemmy.world/post/13899357 )
when they forced the media bias fact checker bot and discarded user feedback (https://lemmy.world/post/18775630 - to be fair, they since then removed it from !news@lemmy.world , it's still in !politics@lemmy.world )
when they realized centralization of communities on LW was impacting the ability of other instances to stay up to date (https://lemmy.world/post/13967373 )
when they updated their rules following a power trip overtake of a community (https://feddit.org/post/2308651 )

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[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

spreading out a bit would be nice, although there are some things that could help some of these issues anyways

federation: parallel sending per instance
Federate lightweight list of communities to ease discovery / find remote communities (helps "every community listed there has a much higher chance of visibility compared to an alternative hosted on another instance")

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From what I read on the aussie.zone thread (https://aussie.zone/post/9964509/11627914 ) they already tried a few things

The last one would be to have a proxy in Europe, but they don't want to (which I can understand)

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

yea but the new parallel sending feature should help them more, we'll see when it gets released

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully soon!

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

It's already been in beta testing for a little while so probably releasing soon! Of course that's a bit of a risky change lol so I'll be waiting and see if any bugs are discovered in the weeks after release.