Would this mean that there'll be no access to communities on Beehaw?
Could someone list the popular communities in Beehaw and their alternatives on other instances?
I think that'd be useful.

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[–] tallwookie@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (13 children)

but I can still access beehaw from lemmy.world and post on beehaw - so it has yet to occur or something's fucky

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[–] Hedup@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Maybe making an account in a big instance is not that great of an idea after all. What benefit does it actually have?

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago

big instances are more likely to stay up. smaller instances may just be some random user who might not be as interested in maintaining the site and may end up closing it. this happened to me when I used mastodon, I joined a smaller instance and they ended up shutting down.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

100%. The best instance to be on is actually your own. Failing that, a small one where the admins are easy to get a hold of.

Big ones that offer extra goodies might become a thing ala Gmail, but I expect they will vet and monitor their users so nobody has to block them.

Edit: Annoyingly, I can't respond to Kbin users,

[–] arkcom@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

At some point they will change to whitelist, which will ban all single user instance as well.

[–] JWBananas@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The root problem is that identity is tied to an instance at all. For a federated system, the lack of federated identity / single sign on is baffling.

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[–] atypicaloddity@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There's a possible future where major fediverse sites switch to whitelisted federation to deal with spam etc. At that point, your small instance would have to petition all the major players to be let in. That would probably kill off most small instances.

[–] Frz@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My biggest fear is if some corpos decide to set up mega instances and start dominating Lemmy by doing this, since corpos probably have the best budgets to set up massive server infrastructure. I think the more Lemmy grows the more attention it’ll get from corpos, which is not great.

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[–] LostCause@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 years ago

It‘s the bubble concept I already curated for myself on Reddit by filtering out what feels like half the website. Except now I can sort of choose my pre-made bubble, which is more effort to be certain (have to research the admins of a chosen instance a bit and understand their rules and values), but I don‘t mind that.

[–] azuth@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Do subscribed users from the blocked instances still count against their communities' totals?

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[–] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Ok so which instance is not slow and still has access to most content?

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