EDIT: Thank you all for your answers, now I’m reassured this platform is in good hands and we will always have the freedom to switch. Let’s make this place vibrant, diverse and decentralized, like the old web used to be.

I feel like this instance is getting too big and all the content is being centralized here. Am I right or there are other instances thriving too?

Wherever I go I keep seeing lots of lemmy.world users and communities and kind of feel worried about centralization.

  • halo5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    Well, from what I’ve seen and read, this is mostly due to the fact that @ruud (am I doing that right?) has put in the time, effort and, most importantly, the money into providing server performance necessary for lemmy.world to survive and handle the load. I wouldn’t worry about centralization with Lemmy, simply due to the fact that, should @ruud all of a sudden decide to turn into a first-rate a$$hole (definitely don’t see that happening from @ruud’s reputation!), the exact same software works on other servers which could supplant lemmy.world should the need arise. Long story short, Lemmy is tyrant-proof, IMO.

    On a related note, I would encourage those who appreciate lemmy.world to visit the homepage and contribute when they can, since the associated costs are not insignificant. Who knows what may happen 5-10 years from now; Lemmy could become the dominant platform. I have no problem with that…

    • kring@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      the exact same software works on other servers which could supplant lemmy.world should the need arise.

      But all the communities on lemmy.world would be lost. I was hoping that communities could be forked and run on a different server if needs arise, like we can do with Git repositories.

      • Qvest@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        This is kinda already happening. Searching for tech gives me more than 3 communities that are about the same thing, all in different instances

        • kring@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          I’m more thinking about old threads. I used to search in subreddits because some information is still useful after years (guides for games, comments on movies/series, …). The information, e.g. this thread, will only be in one instance. Even if there’s a similar community in another instance, this thread will die with lenny.world.