• Chozo@kbin.social
    537·
    1 year ago

    @renwillis I’m not so sure this is a “win”, since the Fediverse wasn’t specifically targeted by any entity involved to begin with. If anything, it’s just a straight-up loss to the communities that have to reassemble themselves under a new domain again, many of whom were probably mostly new users to the Fediverse to begin with, and are likely to be turned off by this experience. If anything, this just exposes that the Fediverse is significantly sustained by flimsy, free/cheap platforms that are vulnerable to disappearing without any notice. That doesn’t exactly instill faith.

    It’s a really bad look, to be perfectly honest.

      • Chozo@kbin.social
        2·
        1 year ago

        @renwillis The Fediverse is more than just the collective network. It’s also the individual communities, some of which no longer exist right now. Those communities are now scrambling to figure out what to do.

        Yes, the whole of the Fediverse is just fine. But the overall health of the Fediverse relies heavily on the health of individual communities.

      • EatMyDick@lemmy.world
        29·
        1 year ago

        I could also get hot by lightning there times a day but I don’t optimize for it. This is a lol and definitely points back to how shitty personal servers may be. I for one hope a .org starts a monitizartion scheme, deals with the privacy issues this community blatantly ignores, and hires some professionals who actually know what they are doing.

    • puppy@lemmy.world
      192·
      1 year ago

      If this is a loss, a loss compared to what? Centralised servers? If Lemmy was a centralised server, this would’ve taken the whole site down. As another commenter mentioned, if the US government decides take Reddit down, the whole service would be lost. But in the Fediverse no single government can stop it.

      Another example is when lemmy.world was attacked. All other instances and the custom clients continued to work. If you say this is a bad look, what’s a good look in your opinion? All of Lemmy going down at the same time? If centralised services deploy techniques to keep their services stable (horizontal scaling, regional mirrors etc.), Fediverse apps can use all of those techniques plus then some.

    • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
      81·
      1 year ago

      I do kinda agree, this isn’t great for general adoption but it’s a vital learning curve and hopefully smart people in the community will help develop ways to avoid it going forward and tools to fix it when it does happen

    • ebits21@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      We NEED better abilities to migrate accounts to other instances like what Mastodon has!