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Seems to me the fear of overloading one instance over another will not happen after all.

But I do hope the Threadiverse can hit 500,000 consistent active users by the end of summer.

Give me that hopium guys! 💉

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[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 year ago

I think being able to register on other instances and interact across is virtually the whole point of Lemmy.

It reduces server costs because content is spread out. If something happens (like the custom emoji XSS exploit or vlemmy.net's disappearance), it doesn't take out the entire network. It's good against anti-censorship. It's good against powertripping mods/admins, but on the other hand also can be modded with a heavy hand to help curate a specific culture (see beehaw.org in contrast to lemmy.world)

So all around good. Disadvantages are some fracturing of content and lack of tools to sync and properly moderate between instances.