I feel like this instance is getting too big and all the content is being centralized here. Am I right or there are other instances thriving too?

Wherever I go I keep seeing lots of lemmy.world users and communities and kind of feel worried about centralization.

  • kring@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    the exact same software works on other servers which could supplant lemmy.world should the need arise.

    But all the communities on lemmy.world would be lost. I was hoping that communities could be forked and run on a different server if needs arise, like we can do with Git repositories.

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      2 years ago

      This is kinda already happening. Searching for tech gives me more than 3 communities that are about the same thing, all in different instances

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        2 years ago

        I’m more thinking about old threads. I used to search in subreddits because some information is still useful after years (guides for games, comments on movies/series, …). The information, e.g. this thread, will only be in one instance. Even if there’s a similar community in another instance, this thread will die with lenny.world.