What is the point of small instances?
What is the point of small instances?
They come and go. They're random clutter. We only need a few big instances that hosts a majority of the communities and that's it. Why do we need so many smaller ones?
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So who should be in charge of deciding who can have an instance and who can't?
You’re twisting OP’s words. He just wants to discuss the purpose of small instances, he isn’t forcing people to abolish them.
I think it's a valid thing to consider. Due to the nature of the fediverse, there will always be small instances. I guess you could say their purpose is to allow Lemmy to be decentralized.
Small instances don't prevent Lemmy from being centralized, people don't mind if their instance defederates from an instance with 5 people. Medium-sized instances (e.g. dbzer0) prevent wrongful defederation, because people will suddenly miss a few communities / users.