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i dont quite know what it means, but lemm.ee is shutting down.. so... successful ?
It's shutting down, but the fediverse is healing around it. Piefed.social has seen a huge influx, and people are moving accounts slowly but surely.
Lemm.ee shutting down isn't ideal from a service stand point, but it is showing how robust the fediverse is. It's acting like the internet used to, routing around damage to continue to work. That's amazing, and hopeful.
My Lemmy experience has been better than Reddit ever was, but that honestly sounds like cope. Vast swaths of people couldn't even be bothered to figure out an instance to pick, now the few that bothered are having to migrate. I think this will be a big net loss for Lemmy.
I'd even say that this illustrates the success even more...
- lemm.ee shuts down, iirc, because it took too much time and effort to run the instance. Not really a sign of inactivity.
- the platform keeps going! The whole idea of a federated network works, as a single instance going down doesn't impact other ones. As it happened before, see e.g. feddit.de.
So Lemmy as a whole is alive and healthy - and successful.
Yes, in many ways lemm.ee shutting down is a great example of the intention of a federated network at work, but it is also somewhat of a cautionary tale when it comes to centralisation. Ideally the load would be spread as such that any single instance shutting down would be reasonably painless to adjust for. There were already too many users and communities on .ee, really. Imagine what a disaster .world shutting down would be in the current state of things.
Honestly I wonder, hypothetically, if .world shutting down right now would actually be better for the fediverse.
If it continues to be seen as the "default instance" it just becomes a bigger point of failure. And arguably more pernicious, becomes the cultural equivalent of a reddit.
Then I start to think crazy thoughts like what if private capital took an interest in a giant instance. Idk, I'm being way too paranoid I know I know
I think it is typical human behavior to congregate to large groups.
Especially to the 2 big groups in the area.
Could happen. Imagine the hosting costs of .world exploding if it becomes too big a target.
I think it only costs lw $300 a month to host their instance.
What if they need to hire to fight spam? What if they need to pay for legal?
Just saying, it can get complicated real quick.
Not exactly cheap for a project without intrinsic funding. From what I can tell, all funding they have is donations.
It's alright https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45977837
Because of a lack of admins/mods not due to low users or money
I mean while yes it’s a tragedy. People have just moved to the other instances such as Piefed.social and Lemmy.zip.