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Honestly, reading the comments of some out there regarding this issue. I'm starting to think that they did the right choice.
It doesn't take long to find fairly rude or insulting content regarding this.
Most people have no reason to care if a small instance decided to sail away.
It's disappointing because I think this platform is already turning into reddit in term of tone/aggressiveness.
And it's not even just comments, it's upvoting memes that are genuinely rude or targeting a specific community. I don't like the way this is going.
They weren't a small instance though. They had pretty much established all of the default subs and then when they had like the top 10 largest communities on all of Lemmy they decided to start threatening defederating servers, closed their registration, and taking the largest communities away from them. Pretty much right as Lemmy was starting to build up some momentum essentially the largest instance was like "time to establish dominance and flex our power"
They've apparently defederated from 400 servers and still have 4 of the top 10 largest communities. Like yeah defederation is a tool of Lemmy but their using it like a threat and now they are demanding other instances follow their lead if they want re-federated. Then they try to boohoo about how running the largest subs with 4 mods is infeasible with the current tools and that's everyone else's fault.
Like Lemmy is barely off the ground and there's already power mods and they are already trying to control the whole thing.
397 of those are spammy Mastodon instances and 1 is Lemmygrad. You can just say they defederated from the 2 other biggest instances.
I completely understand why people would want a tighter instance. I started using Reddit significantly less awhile ago because a good chunk of the content and comments were either misinformed, malicious, or both. I'm hopeful that large instances can foster friendlier and healthier cultures, but right now I'm seeing so many people willing to make excuses for assholes and blaming the people that don't want to deal with those assholes.
I don't know where I read that for a social network, the actual product is the moderation. If you manage to moderate well enough your social network, it may grow.
The problem is that for a large community there is no other way than having an army of mods to moderate stuff. And reddit mods are not paid so it ends up attracting some amount of power hungry people. That's how they are paid, power.
So I definitely understand why a community would want to stay small. You can moderate a small instance with a tight team. Moderation will also stay more consistent since all mods know each other.