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The fediverse model is non-sustainable.
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this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2024
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I find it sustainable. I host my own instances. I can moderate as I seem fit.
Private forums have worked before. We have to relearn how not to have a corporate overlord without soul who moderates only based on law and advertiser friendliness.
But we also have to learn that we are not always welcome on other peoples instances and that's okay. People host these instances and they have opinions. Since it's the fediverse we can try to find a place where we fit in and there is a good chance we still get to talk to everyone else. Mastodon for example has a good way to move to another instance so it's okay to start on a big instance. I'm sure lemmy will get that too some day.
Reminds me of the old BBS and Usenet days. Pros and cons to it, like anything else. I agree that it's sustainable. Biggest issue right now is the lack of users and content in niche communities. But that problem is fixable.
If we hang in and keep talking, more folks can find us. We don't need hundreds of millions to have something worthwhile here. I read and enjoy lemmy every day.
I disagree with you respectfully.
The day the fediverse begins to gain a significant amount of users( speaking in terms of tens of millions) is the day where every pitfall of the fediverse is going to make the experience very miserable(bad reliability, bad security and terrible privacy)
The reason why the fediverse is surviving right now is that it's relatively very small (under 20 million accounts, with most users not being active at all in the fediverse) compared to the alternatives.
I get your point. More numbers brings more problems. But I think it also brings more solutions and more helpful hands, too. Growing pains, if you will.
What will happen to your instance users if you decided to shutdown for whatever reason?
Users who want to join the fediverse right now are faced with 2 choices:
If the user chooses this option then he/she has to void the decentralization feature of the fediverse, which defeats the purpose of the whole thing.
If the user chooses this option, then he/she (from what I witnessed by myself and seen) will have to create a new account every 3-6 months.
All that and I did not speak about the whole security and privacy issues associated with using the fediverse.
As I said before in my humble opinion I think that the superior options here are:
I'm a member of an old school forum that has been running for 15 years. What is the difference with a Lemmy instance?
I don't want to sound like a d*#k but, ask the admins who shutdown their servers.
The fediverse is P2P. You can host an instance only for yourself. Just like email.
Non Profit centralized will not solve your problem because they can still fail or you can get banned if you do something stupid.