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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)

Looking at your other comment on this thread, thank you - that kind of breakdown was precisely what I was hoping to see!:-)

So Bluesky is more decentralized than Reddit (or Facebook), but barely, and far less so than any Fediverse platform currently.

I think what OP was trying to convey was less the current state of affairs and more the underlying protocol itself, which they re-released now under a separate post.

There is no hope anymore... of avoiding consequences entirely, or perhaps in minimizing them. There IS hope that humanity may not go extinct. The trick as I see it may be to find the balance in between those extremes:-). (Unfortunately I don't know where precisely that is.)

Edit: people downvoting, please speak up why you believe this is wrong, and if possible send me a link to read in order to learn more? (I tried to include one in my comment but went down a rabbit hole and gave up, with lemm.ee going down I can't find what I was looking for.)

Let's see... beans, jeans, no pooping, yup seems legit. 👍 Assuming this takes place on Taylor Swift's jet, this has reached peak Lemmy saturation!

"yes"

As in assault and?

My mind apparently goes to weird places:-).