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I'm intrigued by the idea of nomadic communities jumping from platform to platform. Maybe that will become necessary. Each instance might be less stable than the mega-sites we're used to.
The instance itself is run by the head mod though; I'd say it's much better than relying on a company that might shut down the sub any time
I like the idea, but it makes modding a lot more work. I don't think it's feasible for every community to host an instance.
The mod tools are basically moving here too, with Sync for Lemmy and Memmy (Apollo-like), so it shouldn't be an issue by the time comms get actually big enough to worry about.
That's one of the main reasons we're moving here in the first place.
Community mods also don't need to host an instance; they'll just make them in an instance that's tangentially related to their topic, as some already are (like mine), or a general instance.
maybe add a function to migrate an entire community to others instances?
In software, keeping things small means they can be simpler. And simple things tend to have better uptime for less effort. Lemmy is rust based, so performance should be reasonable for most instances. Also, due to the federation, the work for instances is distributed like email, so the system naturally distributes load.
It's probably a lot like IRC, there will be different servers or networks with different specialities, but from a user perspective you can be on many at the same time.