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Okay. So if lemmy.world goes down then presumably all the communities it hosts also go down? This seems to present a bit of a logistical problem for community longevity. For example, a small instance that creates a popular community across all of the fediverse then has to try and support a large amount of traffic with possibly little local income/support?
I think this is why lemmy.ml has been asking people to stop signing up there. Centralising everything goes against the point of the Fediverse but also ends up costing the people running the instance a lot of money. It's best for everyone if we all spread out a bit.
My other account is on Beehaw.org and they're pretty transparent about what it's costing them and how many donations they've had, it's definitely interesting https://beehaw.org/post/416496
Is it beneficial to have accounts across multiple instances?
Nah, I just have two because I've historically split my online presence up into these two usernames. Tbh I've just subbed this one to all of the same communities as the other one so it's largely pointless until things spread out a bit more, but if I'm posting about videogames I tend to do it under this name and if I'm posting about cross stitch I tend to do it on the other one. Eurovision goes on both :D
No actual practical benefit beyond it just seeming tidier to me lol.
I think it's a good idea to spread out your online presence to regain some anonymity; being doxed or stalked does not sound like fun.
Some people post pictures of their street and their airline ticket and then are surprised when they get back to find they've been burgled.
Yeah my craft persona is also a YouTuber which makes it even more important, imo. These two usernames are generally open about being the same person but suffice to say I have plenty of secret ones too ;)
Fair enough, cheers
I think your posts and comments are stored on your own instance - lemmy.world for example - and then that instance uses the ActivityPub protocol to tell the community you interacted with that you did it.
From there I'm not sure exactly. I think the primary source of truth for your activity is still your home server, but the server hosting the community still at least caches the data as well, meaning a popular community might still overload it.
Worth asking how long the server is likely to be up, ive been trying to ask on all the small servers ive signed up on
It also seems to create multiple of the same communities. Also depending on what instance you are signed up with you can't access posts from certain other instances
Only if your instance is banned by another.
Duplicate communities will exist for a while, but the same thing happens on reddit.
Yes, as far as I understand that is an issue. I guess more popular instances may request donations to increase resources in future? I believe that Lemmy is super lightweight so shouldn't need much in the way of server power etc
For now this is peanuts. If it might grow a lot, I can use some of the mastodon.world donations or setup a new Patreon.
What I think is needed is a way to migrate communities and users between servers and something like the Mastodon Server Covenant so people would have time to migrate if a server decided it was going away.
That would be great