Stop using giant catchall instances and switch to a smaller instance that’s more suited to you.
One of the major advantages of a federated system is that it doesn’t really matter which instance you use. Theres no real advantage to using a larger instance, and in fact there’s several disadvantages as the large instances can be slower, maintenance can take longer, it’s more expensive to run the servers, etc.
One of the reasons people moved away from Reddit was to avoid one company (Reddit) and especially one person (the Reddit CEO) having control over the whole thing. Using a huge Lemmy server kinda defeats the point of switching across.
Stop using giant catchall instances and switch to a smaller instance that’s more suited to you.
One of the major advantages of a federated system is that it doesn’t really matter which instance you use. Theres no real advantage to using a larger instance, and in fact there’s several disadvantages as the large instances can be slower, maintenance can take longer, it’s more expensive to run the servers, etc.
One of the reasons people moved away from Reddit was to avoid one company (Reddit) and especially one person (the Reddit CEO) having control over the whole thing. Using a huge Lemmy server kinda defeats the point of switching across.
Thank you. By the way, cool instance name
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It’s a natural phenomena and we’d have to actively counter it if you want to equally distribute activity across instances.