▲ 27 ▼ Lemmy.world seems down (feddit.it) submitted 10 months ago by silver@feddit.it to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml 21 comments fedilink hide all child comments The well known lemmy.world instance has been down for a while now.
[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 13 points 10 months ago (4 children) That's exactly why decentralisation is good. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 10 months ago* (3 children) Yeah but it's a lot of users to lose, many people will be too lazy to join another instance Losing the communities would have an interesting effect though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 12 points 10 months ago (1 child) This is why as a community, we should've never allowed things to centralise on LW in the first place. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago That's not how networks work. Emergent properties scale with size. You simply can not have kinds of communities the fediverse expects without also creating the problem of centralization. There were extensive discussions around this about two years ago, but it's a fundamental design limitation right now. permalink fedilink source parent [–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago I think we saw the worst case already when lemm.ee shut itself down. Some communities moved to other instances. Some lemm.ee content still lives on in the database “cache” of other instances and is accessible. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com 4 points 10 months ago* (3 children) Yeah but it's a lot of users to lose, many people will be too lazy to join another instance Losing the communities would have an interesting effect though permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 3 child comments replies: [–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 12 points 10 months ago (1 child) This is why as a community, we should've never allowed things to centralise on LW in the first place. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago That's not how networks work. Emergent properties scale with size. You simply can not have kinds of communities the fediverse expects without also creating the problem of centralization. There were extensive discussions around this about two years ago, but it's a fundamental design limitation right now. permalink fedilink source parent [–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago I think we saw the worst case already when lemm.ee shut itself down. Some communities moved to other instances. Some lemm.ee content still lives on in the database “cache” of other instances and is accessible. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al 12 points 10 months ago (1 child) This is why as a community, we should've never allowed things to centralise on LW in the first place. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago That's not how networks work. Emergent properties scale with size. You simply can not have kinds of communities the fediverse expects without also creating the problem of centralization. There were extensive discussions around this about two years ago, but it's a fundamental design limitation right now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago That's not how networks work. Emergent properties scale with size. You simply can not have kinds of communities the fediverse expects without also creating the problem of centralization. There were extensive discussions around this about two years ago, but it's a fundamental design limitation right now. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 10 months ago I think we saw the worst case already when lemm.ee shut itself down. Some communities moved to other instances. Some lemm.ee content still lives on in the database “cache” of other instances and is accessible. permalink fedilink source parent