I totally understand, and itβs a valid concern. Without knowing anything about the admins who run this instance, itβs entirely possible that monitoring isnβt in place, or it is in place but notifications arenβt setup, or that is the case but people canβt respond to problems because they are at their day job, or they are responding to problems but solving those problems takes hours.. Iβm speaking from personal experience running smaller projects for others. I was always very thankful to have users who understood these concerns, and I guess I try to gently remind users about the realities of the volunteer-run projects.
The software isnβt doing the fight. I doubt the developers of the software are doing the fight. The fight seems weird and antithetical to the fediverse to begin with. Itβs not a fight, itβs a party! https://fediverse.party
ActivityPub was made for sharing and interoperability.
Information wants to be free.
Capitalism wants domination. Capitalism and bottoms, of course. switches too. i digress,,
this thread is about instances fighting to be #1 isnβt it? yβall know thatβs why MAU and metrics are tracked and reported like this right? You do realize that any site which has your email has maybe about $0.5-$1 added to their valuation for each active user, right? this helps companies get advertisers. Even if a product is crap, the business can say βsure but we can contact 1mil users at their email addressesβ and I assure you, that counts for a lot.
So long as we donβt view it as a race to the top. having one instance thatβs more popular than the others just means added pressure for that instance to perform. and if it doesnβt perform? lemmy loses users who may not want to migrate to another instance.
Only the biggest. as I understand all other instances shut down when the biggest instance wins.
I have accounts on other instances and am considering starting my own. thatβs my point - lemmy doesnβt need big instances because federation makes all instances part of the same but decentralized.
Seriously folks, donβt jump on the take over the internet bandwagon just yet.
I totally understand, and itβs a valid concern. Without knowing anything about the admins who run this instance, itβs entirely possible that monitoring isnβt in place, or it is in place but notifications arenβt setup, or that is the case but people canβt respond to problems because they are at their day job, or they are responding to problems but solving those problems takes hours.. Iβm speaking from personal experience running smaller projects for others. I was always very thankful to have users who understood these concerns, and I guess I try to gently remind users about the realities of the volunteer-run projects.