doesn’t host a community (sub) that’s replicated on the others
etc
For starters… it’s difficult even for those technically advanced.
My thought: IF it survives and outgrows a centralized site, it might still fizzle out and die when one instance outgrows the others and decides “why do we need the others if we have the bigger user base with the most subscribers?” And then we’re back to square one.
Oh wait… this is about Mastodon, not Lemmy… point still stands for ActivityPub as a whole.
doesn’t de-federate from each other
Lulz.
Do you know what it feels like to get your personal email server banned by gmail and/or outlook.com? Its like you can't email anyone after that.
Yes. In that example, the bigger instance defederated the smaller one, but banning is an extreme case. You’d be relegated to junk/spam filters for a while before that for only those providers but your email works everywhere else.
My main point still stands. Most email providers play nice but what if Gmail suddenly said “Your email won’t work except with other Gmail users”?
True. Except email
For starters… it’s difficult even for those technically advanced.
My thought: IF it survives and outgrows a centralized site, it might still fizzle out and die when one instance outgrows the others and decides “why do we need the others if we have the bigger user base with the most subscribers?” And then we’re back to square one.
Oh wait… this is about Mastodon, not Lemmy… point still stands for ActivityPub as a whole.
Lulz.
Do you know what it feels like to get your personal email server banned by gmail and/or outlook.com? Its like you can't email anyone after that.
Yes. In that example, the bigger instance defederated the smaller one, but banning is an extreme case. You’d be relegated to junk/spam filters for a while before that for only those providers but your email works everywhere else.
My main point still stands. Most email providers play nice but what if Gmail suddenly said “Your email won’t work except with other Gmail users”?