Interesting bit of news for the threadiverse. All three of these are fairly large lemmy instances

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    1 year ago

    The sad reality is that during the reddit blackout, people were pushing lemmy (specifically Beehaw) as the reddit replacement because yay decentralized, federated, fun!

    For a lot of those reddit refugees the effort they put into making content and trying to make Beehaw their home is gone now.

    Theyā€™re not going to want to start all over at a new instance and rebuild yet again.

    Theyā€™re just going to go back to reddit

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. Iā€™ve been trying to rebuild my account on lemmy.world but itā€™s disenheartening and honestly makes me want to not bother. The answer isnt defederating, the answer is find some mods.

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      I think the issue is that everyoneā€™s so focused on seeing Lemmy as a ā€œnotRedditā€ that they outright get pissed when it doesnā€™t work the way they think it should (like Reddit except the parts they think are bad)

      Lemmy (and kbin, and other similar platforms) and Reddit have the same niche, but theyā€™re not the same thing

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      I feel like the concept of ā€œdecentralisationā€ is good for the consuming users and people who want to discuss an interesting topic/subject, but not really for OC/content craetorsā€¦ They just want their work to be as exposed to as many people as possible (exposure -> more clients -> bigger brand/value -> profit???), and defederalisating goes against that principle.