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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I felt slightly frustrated when I tried some Lemmy apps and they only offer a few largest instances in the initial setup and leave people to discover/find smaller instances by themselves.

    It is understandable that they don’t want to present a thousand choices and confuse people, or get people to sign up for an instance that disappears a week later. Also, larger instances tend to get a snowball effect by receiving more donations / volunteers and scale better, other nodes are also more likely to help them if there are e.g. federation problems.

    However this effectively promotes an centralized ecosystem that both depends on and burdens a small number of key instances.




  • Thank you for looking into it. I tried subscribing again and it went through, and several threads just got through to kbinMeta over there, so I’ll cautiously say it seems to be fixed now.

    Glad to hear federation is being worked on, it does feel it needs to be more robust to live up to the promise that one gets the same experience no matter which instance (local or remote) one view a magazine from. (I’m not being critical, interoperability is always a hard problem no matter which stage of development it is)

    Again, thanks for the good work and for bringing kbin to us!