One issue for me, and this is also true of Mastodon and by extension Mbin, is that I greatly prefer the voting and focus on a topic area rather than person. X / Twitter / Mastodon / Bluesky is where celebrities go to increase their profits, fame, and relevance, while Reddit / Lemmy / PieFed (/ + nodeBB + flarum + others) are where we discuss matters of import. I'm not criticizing your post here - this is definitely the correct community to discuss such matters:-) - just interjecting my personal preferences into the conversation, to disclose my own biases.
OpenStars
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On the bright side, tomorrow is Wednesday, my dudes 😎
Hi joke, this is dad.
(Doesn't work, I know, that's why it works in this context... 🤔😅)
If Lemmy.World went away, then correct you would not "lose" the users as, well you said it, they would simply move to another instance.
But if Lemmy.World remained and you blocked it (if you had a method to do that - it's not easy at all using base Lemmy but it is doable with some older apps or like Ublock Origin filter rules and such), then in that context you would indeed "lose" all of that content. Or like if you got banned from that instance then that's another way that you could "lose" access to engage with communities located on it.
The more centralized something is, like Reddit, the more damaging it is to lose access to it, while the more decentralized, as you pointed out, the less overall effect that perturbations have upon the network.
Is it not bats trying to eat the moths? :-P
And then perhaps cats to chase the bats away? Certainly not bc they are just the cutest things evar... no, certainly not for that reason, no! :-D
That seems a very good way to phrase it.
The next issue then becomes cost. Which affects Lemmy as well: first there is the requisite effort to set up and self-host even a tiny instance (especially as it relates to potential spam and CSAM attacks), and second the network traffic costs. The latter may be tiny for a single user who only subscribes to a handful of communities, but someone trying to browse All and wanting everything to be available for their perusal (even if deleted soon-ish for storage reasons) will bear a much higher burden. Which depending on local costs may be trivially easy... or prohibitively expensive, but in either case the more data that someone wants to pull in the higher the cost.
And I imagine that Bluesky is either similar, or significantly worse.
And his girlfriend too.
And yes you absolutely do.:-)
Bluesky is decentralised in theory, but in reality it is not.
I loved how you phrased it here:-).
This is so cheesy!
(Therefore Porthos loves it - and I do too!:-P)
Incorrect. Janeway already shot it all, and is now resting comfortably while ~~sipping~~ gulping coffee ☕ en route to the next ~~slaughter field~~ no that's actually what I meant yeah 👍.