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If just a few Instances ends up having the majority of Users - Will Lemmy still be decentralized?
(self.showerthoughts)
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If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.
Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report the message goes away and you never worry about it.
There are more than 1000 instances right now.
While I do believe many have been created just out of the "impetus" of quitting reddit so not all all them will probably survive in the long run, there are already quite a few created for very specific purposes like science, music, etc.
I think it's normal for most people to gravitate around the most popular "generalist" instances, but that doesn't mean lemmy is not decentralized, it still is considering the large amount of different instances, and also just because of the fact that anyone at any moment can spin up a new one if they want to do so, that's impossible with centralized stuff.