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This is a community for general discussion where you can get your bearings in the fediverse. Discuss topics & ask questions that don't seem to fit in any other community, or don't have an active community yet.

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[email protected] - Into video games? Here's a place to discuss them!
[email protected] - Watched a movie and wanna talk to others about it? Here's a place to do so!
[email protected] - Want to talk politics apart from political news? Here's a community for that!

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0. See: Rules for Users.

No bigotry: including racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.
Be respectful. Everyone should feel welcome here.
Be thoughtful and helpful: even with ‘silly’ questions. The world won’t be made better by dismissive comments to others on Lemmy.
Link posts should include some context/opinion in the body text when the title is unaltered, or be titled to encourage discussion.
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We've grown an absolute shit ton of people the past day, insanely nuts to see how active World is. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Also please consider using other instances for your account. Lemmy.world is struggling and the costs will keep rising for Ruud.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

As someone who's new to the fediverse, can you (or others) explain a bit more about how the costs of an instance might affect us? I was pondering this a bit yesterday; at the end of the day, hosting an interactive site at scale can get very expensive.

Specifically:

how does the fediverse model address costs at scale?
what happens if an instance closes? How does that affect content hosted there, as well as user accounts registered there?
I figured joining a large instance would be the best thing to do (more content and engagement), but now I'm wondering if that's at all true. Maybe a smaller instance is less likely to grow so much that costs are a problem, and the fediverse model itself provides the cross instance content?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Federation addresses the cost of large scale hosting by allowing smaller severs (with less users) to connect and form a greater whole. While a flagship Lemmy instance will form and likely already has with .world, in an ideal world users are spread across variety of different instances. In an even more ideal, different topics will have their own instances and general purpose ones are secondary. If you want anime you to to lemmyime, if you want recipes you to lemmecipes. Not, if you want anime and recipes go to lemmy.world. Essentially you want to spread the burden as evenly as possible.

With instances closing, as it stands you lose your account and all things tied to it. Lemmy is still new and I image this will be addressed with something like account migration. So for now, don't get too attached to any singular account. I've recently switched my browsing from lemmy.world to lemm.ee, but remember I still have access to all content from lemmy.world and other instances (addressing your point about more content and engagement).

It's perfectly fine to use large instances, they're likely to have solid footing. Just know theirs going to be growing pains as Reddit becomes more shite. Donate if you can.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, one follow up question about instances closing: what happens to the content that originates from that instance? Poof? Or does the federation model preserve it somehow?