Is Lemmy.world centralization worth fighting against? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/fedigrow@lemm.ee

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Probably a very polarizing question.

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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[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

i don’t think compounding problems imply a single compound solution.

instead, tackle each problem directly.

encourage account migration to combat overcentralization
encourage installment of more mods to combat ineffectual moderation
call for transparency in moderator selection to combat cronyism

[-] Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 6 months ago

I see

encourage account migration to combat overcentralization

My gut feeling is that most of the people on LW are comfortable there, and wouldn't see the point in decentralization. That happened in the past with the removal of privacy communities, or the fact that LW is still federated with Threads, still they have 18k MAU

[-] spujb@lemmy.cafe 10 points 6 months ago

and that’s absolutely fair. i think another group though are uncomfortable and are simply unaware that they can move.

for example, i saw a conversation where some folks were expressing uncomfortability that .world is federated with .ml. someone else brought up switching to an instance that was defederated with .ml (happened to be mine, shoutout .cafe) and they were all like “yo! dope let me do that”

so it’s almost a matter of education/spreading awareness for some at least

[-] Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 6 months ago

Definitely. I feel like every other week I stumble upon someone who doesn't know they can switch instances in literally 3 clicks.

[-] Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 4 points 6 months ago

I guess I'm your person this week. I thought you had to create a new account to switch instances. The only time I've moved so far was from kbin.social to lemm.ee so I definitely had to but it's nice to know that if I want to move again I can keep the same account.

[-] Blaze@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 6 months ago

To be completely correct you will have to create a new account, but you can export and import your subscriptions and block lists from the new account to the new one in a few clicks

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