Something I noticed a lot is that while the whole promise if the fediverse is decentralization, it’s not sustainable and very centralized at most.

In the last months I opened multiple accounts to use multiple fediverse services(Mastodon, Pleroma, Lemmy,… etc) and I chooses non-mainstream servers to test the decentralization of the fediverse.

Most of the servers that I opened account in to use got shutdown by the servers owners due to a lot of reasons( literally every server that got shutdown has it’s own specific reason, from financials to ideology and software).

From what I can see currently at least, the best approach to social media sites are either complete P2P(which comes with it’s own disadvantages, but it has a strong advantages to consider) or one centralized server.

  • King@lemy.lolOP
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    9 months ago

    What will happen to your instance users if you decided to shutdown for whatever reason?

    Users who want to join the fediverse right now are faced with 2 choices:

    1. Join one big server:

    If the user chooses this option then he/she has to void the decentralization feature of the fediverse, which defeats the purpose of the whole thing.

    1. Join medium or small server:

    If the user chooses this option, then he/she (from what I witnessed by myself and seen) will have to create a new account every 3-6 months.

    All that and I did not speak about the whole security and privacy issues associated with using the fediverse.

    As I said before in my humble opinion I think that the superior options here are:

    • complete P2P.
    • non-profit opensource centralized services.
    • Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de
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      9 months ago

      If the user chooses this option, then he/she (from what I witnessed by myself and seen) will have to create a new account every 3-6 months.

      I’m a member of an old school forum that has been running for 15 years. What is the difference with a Lemmy instance?