So apologies if this is a stupid question as I’m new to Lemmy. Came from Reddit. I moved to lemmy.world and have noticed that lemmy.ml has been popping up as another featured instance. What differs from lemmy.world vs lemmy.ml? Is .ml more active?
Part of why I ask this is because I downloaded the lemmur client on my phone and it defaults to lemmy.ml. (Yes I’m aware that app is no longer being maintained)
Again apologies for the stupid question.
Don’t sign up to lemmy.ml or you’ll need to sign up again on a new instance when they get defederated. Tankies. I guess a blind eye is being turned right now because numbers are important for survival atm, but I wouldn’t consider it a future-proof instance.
I’m really getting confused, as a person leaving Reddit. If the largest lemmy instances are lemmy.ml, lemmy.world, beehaw.org, and lemmygrad.ml, and the big draw to Lemmy in the first plaace is the interconnectivity, right? And yet Beehaw just defederated lemmy.world, we’re over here talking about defederating lemmy.ml and everyone wants to defederate lemmygrad. Is it fair to say that the whole push for everyone to migrate to Lemmy is already falling apart one whole day after the blackout? It feels like being pointed at a huge, distibuted universe of content and looking up on day one to see a bunch of walled off little half-empty mini-reddits instead.
Im being hyperbolic of course, but the whole defederating thing seems like a step backward from any kind of critical mass.
That’s going to be how it is for a bit. Everything is in a state of flux right now, people are pilling in, learning the platform, moderation is overwhelmed, and people that have long since been segregated on Reddit ar finding themselves having to put up with each other again.
What’s going to end up happening is one of the instances will become the predominant one, and it will end up being closed off from the others.
It’s because people aren’t coming here for the decentralization. They’re coming here to find a new reddit. The whole federated thing is great but I don’t see it meaning much in the long run. Centralization isn’t the result of corporations, it’s the result of people centralizing in one convenient location. it will happen here too. The defederalizing is essential, otherwise all instances would be beholden to the worst, and that would nuke the whole thing real fast.