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I think the issue is that .world has put itself forward as some sort of super lemmy. The landing page for new users. I agree people should move but also that we do kinda need a superish lemmy, but one that maybe has all the good and bad. Would it make any sense to have an instance that has no communities of its own but also has all the instances?
Citation needed. All the admins of lemmy world ever purported to do was host a well-run general-purpose (aka not topic-oriented) lemmy instance. It was and remains that, and part of being a well-run general purpose instance is managing legal risk when a small subset of the community generates an outsized portion of it.
Being well run meant that they scaled up and remained operational during the first reddit migration wave. People appreciated that, but continuing to function does not amount to a declaration of being a super lemmy.
World also has kept signups open through good times, and more recently bad. Other instances at various times shut down signups or put irritating steps and purity tests along the way. Keeping signups open is a pretty bare-minimum bar for running a service though, it is again not a declaration of being a super-lemmy.
Essentially lemmy world just... kept working (until recently when it has done a pretty poor job of that). I dunno where you found a declaration that lemmy world is a super-lemmy, but it's not coming from the lemmy world admins, it's likely randos spouting off.
The advertisement and push they did on sites like reddit and their listing on join-lemmy.org (when they where still listed) made them the biggest instance. And with the name Lemmy.world they did nothing to dissuade anyone from thinking that. If this was all randos pushing the instance then boo to them, but I also saw nothing from .world not claiming to be the bigger instance(super lemmy)
The lemmy world admins advertised on Reddit? Can you link an example?
Until recently EVERY lemmy instance was listed on join-lemmy.
They run a family of servers under the world tld, including at least mastodon, lemmy, and calckey. They're all named similarly.
They ARE the biggest instance, but that happened organically. It's not based on any marketing claims from the admin team about being a flagship/super/mega/whatever instance. People just joined, and the admins didn't stop them (nor should they). It's not a conspiracy to take over lemmy. It's just an instance that... until recently... happened to work pretty well when some were struggling.
Honestly, I feel like self-hosting a single user instance is the ideal way to use the Fediverse. It gives you full control over what you see. However, that would require self hosting to become so simple anyone can do it.
I don't think it is so difficult but I also think that would lessen the depth and breadth of lemmy as a whole by limiting full participation behind self hosting.
The risk, however, is that you're going to be potentially liable for things that you DON'T see but are hosting due to federation.
Federation only duplicates stuff an instance's users subscribe to, so if you're a single user instance it wouldn't copy anything you don't see (if you actually vet your subscriptions and regularly view their content).
That was my thought as well. A single user instance with no local communities would only be storing posts from communities that one user subscribes to. Assuming the person subscribes to only what they want to see, that will be all they get (and any risks that come from storing information from those communities).
In a hypothetical situation where there are only single-user instances and community instances (instances that function as the source of communities), the only ones taking on risk would be the individual users subscribed to a community and owners of the instance hosting the community. There wouldn't be a need for an admin to make decisions to protect themselves that affect other users.
Those parentheses are doing a lot of heavy lifting.