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If Lemmy and Mastodon continues to get popular, we will eventually get Instance wars. (lemmy.fmhy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that's for the future of us all.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Would this require you to switch between instances to view all the content you wish to follow? That doesn't seem very appealing as a user.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No, you can see all the content from all instances you're subscribed to, as long your instance admin hasn't defederated from them.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Right, I think this was the potential concern I was vaguely remembering.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I am subscribed to Ukraine on sopuli.xyz and memes in lemmy.ml and a few others on Lemmy.world and they all show up in my feed, so I'm now more confused. Am I viewing several instances or not? Lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are as long as they agree to federate with each other (which they obviously are if they're in your feed)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So what is the point of congregating on a general purpose instance? I ask this because of the snippet from the root comment:

The problem is that users tend to go where other users are (otherwise why go there)

If everything is visible from any (federated) instance, why not switch once you encounter slow down? In my comment, I was just clarifying that I understood the premise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I also see these when sorting by All in lemmy.world, for instance (no pun intended). I'm just making sure I am not confused. Sorry if I confused you in the process!